Yo-Yo Ma Inspired By Bach - Cello Suites No. 5 & 6 / Struggle for Hope with Tamasaburo Bando - A film by Niv Fichman; Six Gestures - a film by Patricia Rozema - with Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean / Sony Classical DVD Video CD 1998 / SVD 89322

UPC 5099708932299

Subtitles: Deutsch, Francais 

Run Time: 108 min.

PAL DVD

Yo-Yo Ma (Chinese: 馬友友 Ma Yo Yo; born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born in Paris to Chinese parents and educated in New York City, he was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from the Juilliard School and Harvard University and attended Columbia University and has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world. He has recorded more than 90 albums and received 19 Grammy Awards.

Strugele for Flope

with Tamasaburo Bando
choreographer

Featuring Suite No. 5 for Unaccompanied Cello J. S. Bach
Directed and Produced by Niv Fichman

Master Kabuki actor Tamasaburo Bando
sets out on a journey to discover, through
traditional Japanese dance, the universality
and emotion of Bach’s Fifth Suite. The
result is this revelatory, cross-cultural and
trans-oceanic collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma,
sensitively documented by filmmaker
Niv Fichman.

Six Gestures

with Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean

Featuring Suite No. 6 for Unaccompanied Cello J. S. Bach
Directed by Patricia Rozema
Produced by Niv Fichman

Bach and ice dance? Yo-Yo Ma believes that
world champion ice dancers Torvill and

Dean have done for their sport what Bach did
for the cello: that is, to dramatically redefine
the artistic possibilities and to shatter all
preconceptions. Patricia Rozema’s mesmerizing
film explores the outcome of this unlikely
collaboration, with Bach himself as the
dramatic counterpoint.