Hans van Manen: Just Dance the Steps [Blu-ray]

‘Just Dance the Steps’ is a personal portrait of the Dutch choreographer Hans van Manen in the run-up to his 90th birthday. For over five years, director Willem Aerts followed and observed this internationally acclaimed master of contemporary ballet during his life and work at Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam, in the studio of the Ballett am Rhein in Düsseldorf, and at Nederlands Dans Theater in The Hague. This powerful tribute and inspirational portrayal looks back at van Manen’s remarkable

Hans van Manen (Nieuwer-Amstel, 1932) is internationally recognized as one of the great masters of contemporary ballet. Including his ballets for television, he has created more than 150 ballets. His choreographies have an unmistakable signature, characterized by great clarity in structure as well as refined simplicity.

From 1960, Van Manen worked alternately with the two most important dance companies in the Netherlands: for ten years he was co-artistic director of the Nederlands Dans Theater and then successively resident choreographer of the Dutch National Ballet (1973-1987) and Nederlands Dans Theater (1988-2003). Since 2005, he has once again been associated with the Dutch National Ballet as a permanent choreographer.