Concertante / Black Cake: Hans Van Manen

Two Ballets by Hans Van Manen

Hans van Manen's supreme musicality and striking versatility has made him one of the most exciting choreographers on the modern dance scene today.This double bill of ballets was recorded under studio conditions at the Prinzregenten Theater in Munich.Black Cake includes some wonderfully funny sequences as a society party scene of elegant couples succumbs to alcohol and all pretense of sophisticated decorum crumbles.Concertante portrays both humor and aggression as four male and four female dancers generate explosive tension in a succession of encounters.