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Synopsis
Hoang Duong
Memories of Homeland
AKUTAGAWA Yasushi
Spider's Thread
Akutagawa was known for piecing together many different sources for many of his stories, and "The Spider's Thread" is no exception. He read Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov in English translation sometime between 1917 and 1918, and the story of "The Spider's Thread" is inspired partly by a very short fable from the novel known as the Fable of the Onion, where an evil woman who had done no good at all in her life is sent to hell, but her guardian angel points out to God that she had in fact done one good deed in her life: she once gave an onion to a beggar. So God told the angel to take that onion and use it to pull her out of hell. The angel very nearly managed to pull her out, but when other sinners began to hold on to her so they could also be pulled out, she kicked at them, saying that the onion was hers and she was the one getting pulled out, not them. At that moment, the onion broke and the woman fell back into hell, where she remains.
Another inspiration for Akutagawa appears to be from a story of the same name found in Karma: A Story of Early Buddhism, an anthology of five Buddhist parables published in Tokyo in 1895. He took from here the character of Kandata, who is also an evil robber damned to Buddhist hell until his bad karma expires. Here, however, Kandata does not have a path to immediately leave hell but instead is told that any good deeds he may have done such as sparing the spider, would return to help him rise again.
Choreographer: People's Artist Pham Anh Phuong
Solo dancer: Cao Chi Toan
and Dancers of Vietnam National Opera and Ballet (VNOB)
Interval
Igor Stravinsky
Firebird 1919 Version
Choreographer: Lars Andersen (Danmark)
Stage Choreographer: People's Artist Pham Anh Phuong
Firebird: Phan Van Luong,
Prince: Cao Chi Thanh,
Princess: Nhu Quynh,
Tyrant: Van Duc
and the Dancers from the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet
Igor Stravinsky's score for the Firebird has been claimed to bring ballet music out of the classicism into the modernism. Since the premiere in Paris 1910 with Ballets Russes it has continued to challenge the imagination of the choreographers of different traditions and style. The many different successful realizations of the ageless theme of good versus evil embodied in Stravinsky's score are proof of the Firebird's ability to speak in a multitude of voices that appeal to diverse tastes and times.
In this version specially created for the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet, we have looked into how the movement vocabulary and quality of ballet is effected when applying the tools of the dramatic theatre according to the thoughts of Stravinsky, for example "the aim of the role-who and how does the role want to influence". We have tried to enrich our version of the Firebird with the fusions of Vietnamese traditional Art.
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