An amazing choreographer Bruce ! I saw it live in Greece I don't know how many years ago. I still remember the emotions it created A theatre standing up !!!...and is still, after so many years, fresh, spontaneous, moving, bitter sweet, lyrical and powerful, inventive and surprizing, with such a great flow, use of space, superb duos, solos, group moments, I wish I could have had the chance in my life to learn some of these phrases! This is dance in its best ...Thank you Christopher Bruce and amazing dancers of Rambert company.
This is one of my favourite dances. I watched it live in London with my mum on her birthday and loved it. She says watching this choreography as a child is what made her want to be a pro dancer!❤❤❤
A ballet has stayed with me since seeing it all those years ago. Definitely a desert island ballet. The choreography is just superb, never bettered. It really is one the finest ballets ever produced and a superb legacy for a truly amazing choreographer.
Beautifully conceived and inspring to watch. The song Dolencias is one of my top favs ever but I have never been able to find the first version I ever heard, which was solo pan pipes. I will keep searching, like the dancers.
My Dad recorded the Houston Ballets version on videotape when I was younger , and I watched over and over again. I fell in love with this beautiful choreography by Christopher Bruce. So great to see Rambert version. Thank you so much for posting. 😁
Thanks for posting. I did some work promotional work for Rambert and also worked at Sadler's Wells while this was in the repertoire, and saw it several times, never without being moved.
I remember a series on Dance on BBC2 back in the 90's. There was also Billboards. I was lucky to see both Ghost Dance and Billboards, the latter in 1996, at the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh.
That was possibly when I made this recording! I saw Rambert perform this live way back then, also at the Festival Theatre and then again a couple of years ago in Inverness.
@@the-fiddling-fox I thought I understood the story of Ghost Dance, then I saw a documentary on You Tube with the choreographer and realised I was way off :(.
Just an FYI: The music was recorded by the Mercury Ensemble - the 'orchestra' used by the Ballet Rambert. Christopher Bruce says in the interview before the Houston recording that the music came from Inti-Illimani, and on the Rambert website it says it was composed by Ernesto Cavour, Atahualpa Yupanqui (previously known as Héctor Roberto Chavero Aramburu). They were definitely recorded and released as I have seen an audio cassette of the Ghost Dances by the Mercury Ensemble ("courtesy of Inti-Illimani") on an italian blog though I can't find this edition anywhere... However, there are recordings available: 'Incantation' with the Sargeant Early Band is a CD available on ebay for example that apparently includes the music used by Ballet Rambert for both Sargeant Early's Band and Ghost Dances. Hope this is of use.
I bought the cassette of the music which was on sale either at the interval or on the way out in the season when it was first performed at Sadler's Wells. I still have it somewhere. The music and choreography have lived with me ever since that performance. You could have heard a pin drop during the silent moments of the dance sequences of the skeletal figures . As with Les Noces, where Nijinska and Stravinsky come together and are inseparable, so it is with Gost Dances. Now has anybody got a complete version of LCDT's The Waterless Method of Swimming Instruction?
Music is by Incantation from an album called Cacharpaya: Panpipes of the Andes. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be available for download anywhere which is a shame as I've always liked it.
Perhaps you could check out the music of the Chilean group "Inti Illimani", which is on RU-vid. I believe that their music may have been used for the original ballet.
@@johnggillette Incantation performed it live at each performance. Somewhere I still have the cassette I bought on the way out of the old Sadler's Wells.
