Bejar or continuous flight The ballet film of the outstanding choreographer Maurice Bejard’s “House of the Priest” ("Ballet for Life) does not have a clearly defined libretto. It commemorates the great 20th-century dancer Jorge Donne and the great musician Freddie Mercury of Queen, who died of AIDS. But, as Bejard himself said, comparing this disease to “a war in which people die for love,” the ballet is not dedicated to AIDS victims, but to all those who died prematurely. Mozart also died young at 35, ten years before Freddie and Don, who died at 45.
Through the prism of the lives of two legendary personalities, the actors - dancers - dance movements tell the story of the birth, life and death of all people to the music of Mozart and Queen songs. “I sometimes had a completely unreal feeling, as if Mozart and Mercury played piano parts in four hands,” he writes.
And the effect of this extravaganza add fantastic images created by Gianni Versace (by the way, the last creation of the master before his murder) and scenography with hearses and X-rays.
At the same time, the performance is by no means pessimistic and tragic, but is filled with light and joy, because death is not a tragedy and always comes on time. Let's believe it!
10 out of 10