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Jun 24, 2024 · By Eleanor Knight, 24 June 2024. This is not Carmen. “ Carmen is an opera and this is not an opera and you can leave at any time,” intoned an actor moving chairs around in Moved By The Motion’s hybrid offering for the Holland Festival. Sadly, I couldn’t take him up on his offer for two reasons: one, I was there at your service, dear ...
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Wu Tsang/ Moved by the Motion Carmen Holland Festival 2024 23 JUNE 2024. Moved by the Motion takes on the famous tragedy Carmen.Originally written by Prosper Mérimée and transformed into one of the most iconic operas of all time by Georges Bizet, Carmen’s tale has been adapted in numerous ways, inspiring popular culture and remaining in the collective consciousness through its controversy.
Jul 11, 2024 · Do to it what it does to you.” 1 Strange then that Tsang and her collaborative band Moved by the Motion’s version of—intervention into, exploration through—Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera Carmen at the Royal Theatre Carré is so respectful at every level; benign, in fact, to the point of offensive.
Oct 16, 2021 · October 16, 2021–June 5, 2022. Floor 4. Since 2013, artist Wu Tsang has collaborated with Moved by the Motion, a constellation of interdisciplinary artists who work fluidly between language, movement, image, and sound. For this exhibition, Tsang and members Asma Maroof, Tapiwa Svosve, Patrick Belaga, Fred Moten, Serpentwithfeet, Tosh Basco ...
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A busy town square in Sevilla, Spain – 1820. A guardhouse sits on one side of the town square and the entrance to a tobacco factory borders the other. Soldiers pass the time people watching and gambling at cards and dice. Micaëla, a guileless country girl, approaches the guardhouse, looking for Don José. His company of dragoons has not yet arrived,...
At Lillas Pasitas’ Inn, two months later. Carmen and her companions Frasquita and Mercédès dance and play music to entertain officersat the inn, including Zuniga, who has come to woo Carmen. His attentions annoy Carmen, but Zuniga attributes her displeasure to Don José’s arrest for helping her escape. Zuniga tries to cheer her with the news that Do...
A remote hideout in the mountains above the valley where Don José’s home village lies. The smugglers and their band hide out in the mountains. Don José looks down from the mountains towards his home village, mourning his mother’s misplaced faith in him. Carmen tells Don José he should return home to his mother, the thieving life is not for him. Her...
A square in Seville, at the entrance of the amphitheater. The square is filled with performers and peddlers, catering to the crowd arriving for the bullfight. The parade of Toréadors makes its way into the amphitheater. As the favored champion, Escamillo appears at the climax of the parade. Seeing Carmen, he declares his love for her, and she retur...
Jul 24, 2023 · Movie Review – Carmen (2023) July 24, 2023 by Robert Kojder. Carmen, 2023. Directed by Benjamin Millepied. Starring Melissa Barrera, Paul Mescal, Rossy de Palma, Elsa Pataky, Nicole da Silva ...
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Apr 21, 2023 · Carmen. The ravishing images in “Carmen” evoke a powerful sense of myth, poetry, timelessness, and dreams. Each shot is exquisitely framed, every detail contributing to the haunting mood. Cinematographer Jörg Widmer, who was on the camera crew for a similarly dream-like setting with “ The Tree of Life ,” gives settings that might ...
