VIRTUAL - Digital Film Screening: "Dancing Beethoven"

Our Digital Film Haus is celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday with a series featuring various documentaries about LUDWIG VAN. Each film focuses on a different aspect of the composer’s work and life to explore influences and interpretations of his unforgettable music.

Dancing Beethoven 

By: Arantxa Aguirre

Switzerland, Spain 2016

79 min.

French, English, Japanese Spanish with English subtitles

Choreographer Maurice Béjart, who died in 2007, adapted Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as an energetic ballet version in which dance and Beethoven go hand in hand.

Spanish director Arantxa Aguirre accompanied the rehearsals for a performance of Béjart’s piece in Japan over a period of nine months. Her documentary film Dancing Beethoven portrays the creation process, illustrates the mental and physical trials that the actors go through during the preparation, and functions also as a homage to Maurice Béjart, Beethoven, and the arts.

Image: © Xenix Filmdistribution GmbH