Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired By Bach #3: Cello Suites 5 & 6

Struggle For Hope
Master Kabuki actor Tamasaburo Bando sets out on a journey to discover, through traditional Japanese dance, the universality and emotion of Bach's Fifth Suite.The result is the revelatory, cross-cultural and trans-oceanic collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma, sensitively documented by filmmaker Niv Fichman.

Six Gestures
Bach and ice dance?Yo-Yo Ma believes that world champion ice dancers Torvill and Dean have done for their sport what Bach did for the cello: that is, to dramatically redefine the artistic possibilities and to shatter all preconceptions.Patricia Rosema's mesmerizing film explores the outcome of this unlikely collaboration, with Bach himself as the dramatic counterpoint.