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The Ballet of the Nations (2019)
50 min

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The Ballet of the Nations (2019)

50 min

The film begins with Satan and Ballet Master Death discussing how to reintroduce chaos into a complacent society. Satan instructs Ballet Master Death to assemble an orchestra of human passions (Fear, Panic, Suspicion, Hatred, Heroism, ...See moreThe film begins with Satan and Ballet Master Death discussing how to reintroduce chaos into a complacent society. Satan instructs Ballet Master Death to assemble an orchestra of human passions (Fear, Panic, Suspicion, Hatred, Heroism, Murder etc.) to provide the music for a corps de ballet of Nations to perform the dance macabre of war. What follows is an often-humorous assembly of the orchestra, filmed in the atmospheric cavernous tunnels beneath Bristol Temple Meads. Following this assembly, we see the core Nations perform their dance, joined by a larger cohort of Nations for the final act, Revenge. The film is interspersed with danced sections performed by a Chorus, evocative of the choric elements of classical Greek tragedy. The original publication was rooted in a culture of experimental performance that developed in Britain during the war, against the grain of mainstream theatre and often in sympathy with the wartime peace movement. Impermanence's production reanimates that world of movement, sound and design, using the evidence of archives, art works, footage, photographs and illustrated books to develop a richly-textured evocation of the wartime artistic response. See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Grace Brockington Vernon Lee Vernon Lee See fewer	Rock This! (2015)
Peter Clements Ballet Master Death Ballet Master Death See fewer	Femme (2023)
Peter Clements Ballet Master Death Ballet Master Death See fewer	The Ballet of the Nations (2019)
Sonya Cullingford Satan Satan See fewer	The Danish Girl (2015)
Billy Zane Narrator Narrator See fewer	Titanic (1997)