Senseless Kindness | Yuri Possokhov
Reunion | Bundle • 16m
By Yuri Possokhov
A film by Thomas James
A former principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, world-renowned choreographer Yuri Possokhov creates for a UK company for the first time.
His piece for four dancers, Senseless Kindness, is based on Vasily Grossman’s great novel, Life and Fate, about a Russian family caught in the Second World War, and is set to Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No1. Using bold lighting and a stark, textured black and white approach, director Thomas James’s poetic and elegant film reveals the frantic endurance of the human spirit to endure, and to enjoy.
Dancers: Francesco Gabriele Frola, Emma Hawes, Isaac Hernández, Alison McWhinney
Sarah and Dominic Murphy are Lead Supporters of the Short Digital Commissions.
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