Dec 24, 2017
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The Green Table, by Kurt Jooss, preformed by the Joffrey Ballet in ‘67
the audio’s pretty faint, but it’s the full production!
Originally choreographed in 1932, the Joffrey talents have already said how proud they are to present this work in honor of its 80th Anniversary.
The Joffrey Ballet was the first American company to dance “The Green Table” as a company premiere in 1967. Subtitled “A Dance of Death in Eight Scenes” and set to music by Frederick A. Cohen, “The Green Table” is a commentary on the futility of war and the horrors it causes.
The Character of Death in The Green Table: Photo by Roger Wood, Photographer. Choreography by Kurt Jooss. Photo from 1945. NYPL Digital Gallery
It opens with a group of diplomats (the “Gentlemen in Black”) having a discussion around a rectangular table covered with a green cloth. They end up pulling guns from their pockets and shooting in the air, thus symbolizing the declaration of war. The next six scenes portray different aspects of wartime: the separation from loved ones in The Farewells, war itself in The Battle and The Partisan, loneliness and misery in The Refugees, the emotional void and forced entertainment in The Brothel, and, finally, the psychologically beaten and wounded survivors in The Aftermath.
The ballet then ends as it began, with the “Gentlemen in Black” around the green table. Throughout these episodes the figure of “Death” is triumphant, portrayed as a skeleton moving in a forceful and robotic way, relentlessly claiming its victims. (x)
The Green Table: A Dance of Death in Eight Scenes
We can’t fight here, this is the War Room!
First nearly-two-minutes of The Green Table, by the Chicago Joffrey
If anyone ever finds themselves with the full dvd of this, watch it. It is creepy and brilliant.
Jooss Leeder School of Dance - Danse Macabre
Roberto Gerhard, 'Pandora' Suite (1945) 1. The Quest 2. Psyche and the Young Man | 4:50 3. Pandora's Carnival | 13:00 4. The Monster's Drill | 15:40 5. Death and the Mothers | 21:20 Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra / Edmon Colomer (1997)
Have you guys seen the green table by Kurt Jooss? It’s really cool. You would like it.
Does anyone know where I can find a full version of Kurt Jooss's The Green Table online? Preferably on youtube?