A series of five widely differing ballets from Prague, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Frankfurt Nederlands Dans Theater in an adventurous ballet on the theme of aggression, created for them by Hans van Manen.
The situation is an enclosed space containing a door and a digital clock. The action is set in real time. It is accompanied by familiar sounds and falls into two parts.
The series comes from the Royal College of Art, London, where Professor Stuart Hood gives students the opportunity of talking to the people who made these European ballet programmes.
Talking about Situation:
Hans van Manen, choreographer
Klaus Lindemann, TV director, and Manfred Grater, producer WDR
A West German television production