Dancing Beethoven

2017 Spanish film

Dancing Beethoven

Richard Perron, Arantxa Aguirre, and José Luis López Linares at the 32nd Goya Awards

Directed by| Arantxa Aguirre
Screenplay by| Arantxa Aguirre
Starring| Zubin Mehta
Cinematography| Rafael Reparaz
Edited by| Valeria Gentile
Music by| Ludwig van Beethoven

Production
companies

* Coproducción España-Suiza
* Fondation Béjart Ballet Lausanne
* Fondation Maurice Béjart
* López-Li Films

Distributed by|

* Márgenes Distribución
* Arsenal Filmverleih[1]

Release dates

* 13 April 2017 (2017-04-13) (Germany)
* 28 April 2017 (2017-04-28) (Spain)

Running time

| 80 min
Country| Spain

Dancing Beethoven is a 2017 documentary film by the Spanish director Arantxa Aguirre.[2] It is about the work of the choreographer Maurice Béjart, founder of the Ballet of the 20th Century and other dance companies.[3] It was released on 13 April 2017 in Germany[1] and on 28 April 2017 in Spain.[4] Shooting took place in Lausanne and Tokyo over nine months.[4]

It tells the story of a revival of choreography created by Béjart in the 1960s for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The performance is given in Tokyo and the dancers are from the Béjart Ballet Lausanne and Tokyo Ballet, accompanied by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta.[5]

## Cast

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* Malya Roman
* Julien Favreau
* Elisabet Ros
* Kateryna Shalkina
* Óscar Chacón
* Gil Roman as a member of the Béjart Ballet Lausanne
* Kathleen Thielhem
* Masayoshi Onuki
* Alanna Archibald as a cello player
* Simon Hoffman as a cello player
* Zubin Mehta as the director

## Awards and nominations

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Dancing Beethoven was nominated in the 32nd Goya Awards for Best Documentary Film and for the XXIII Premio Cinematográfico José María Forquéfor Best Documentary Feature[6] although finally Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo won.[7][8]

## References

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1. ^ a b "Dancing Beethoven". Cineuropa. Archived from the original on 2021-10-10. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
2. ^ "Dancing Beethoven". Fotogramas (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-03-06. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
3. ^ Cervera, Marta (2017-04-29). "Arantxa Aguirre: 'Bejart no es solo para balletómanos'". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Barcelona. Archived from the original on 2018-11-29. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
4. ^ a b "'Dancing Beethoven' se estrena en cines". Danza.es (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música. 2017-04-25. Archived from the original on 2017-05-05. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
5. ^ "Dancing Beethoven". Antena 3 Noticias (in Spanish). Madrid. 2018-02-08. Archived from the original on 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
6. ^ "Dancing Beethoven, nominada a los Premios Goya y Forqué". Mundo Clásico (in Spanish). 2017-12-27. Archived from the original on 2021-01-21. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
7. ^ "'Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo', Goya al mejor documental". Radio Televisión Española (in Spanish). 2018-02-04. Archived from the original on 2022-03-17. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
8. ^ "'Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo', de Gustavo Salmerón, Mejor película documental en los Premios Goya 2018". Europa Press (in Spanish). Madrid. 2018-02-04. Archived from the original on 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2018-04-09.

## External links

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* Dancing Beethoven at IMDb