DANCE SERIES I: RHYTHM IS IT!

CATEGORY: 'Zukunft@BPhil', Berliner Philharmoniker, cinema, dance programme, DVD, education, music & dance programme, Thomas Grube, transformation, youth
STATUS: in distribution
A Film by Thomas Grube und Enrique Sánchez Lansch

DANCE SERIES I: RHYTHM IS IT!

The Zukunft@BPhil Dance Series - Part 1

RHYTHM IS IT! - The Dance Performance shows the first piece of the DANCE SERIES: the complete dance performance of LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS with 250 young dancers, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle in front an audience of 3000 at the Arena Berlin.
Runtime: 39 min.
| Film length: 3500 ft.
| Film format: HD
| Recording format: HD
Audio format: Dolby Digital
| Picture ratio: 16:9, 4:3 letterbox
Cast

Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle, Royston Maldoom, Susannah Broughton, Volker Eisenach and 250 Berlin kids and teenagers that have become dancers.

Team

directed by: Thomas Grube, Enrique Sánchez Lansch
camera: René Dame, Marcus Winterbauer, Til Maier, Holger Braune    
sound: Christoph Franke, Tom Korr
montage: Dirk Grau, Martin Hoffmann
original music: Igor Strawinksy

produced by: Uwe Dierks, Thomas Grube
in co-operation with Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker

World distribution
BOOMTOWNMEDIA INTERNATIONAL
Honours
“Best Live Performance Relay”, Dance Screen Brighton 2005
Synopsis

Berlin, January 2003. In a former bus depot something amazing is happening. 250 pupils from 25 nations are dancing to Stravinsky's 'Sacre du Printemps', which they have rehearsed for nearly three months, trained by the British choreographer Royston Maldoom and accompanied by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under its chief conductor, Sir Simon Rattle.

The documentary RHYTHM IS IT! shows the process of preparations towards the performance. DANCE SERIES I: RHYTHM IS IT! shows the complete performance in front of 3.000 spectators.

In cinema
Germany (Piffl Medien)
Switzerland (Xenix)
Japan (Cetera International)