MICHAEL JACKSON - THRILLER | “No More Play” by Jiří Kylián | NDT Ballet

Excerpt from part of Jiří Kylián’s Black & White ballet series entitled “No More Play” for the Nederlands Dans Theatre (NDT) in 1996. Dancers: Brigitte Martin, Lorraine Blouin, Patrick Delcroix, Paul Lightfoot, and—in my humble opinion, the greatest male dancer and my all-time favorite, the one-and-only, Ken Ossola. I edited the video and changed the music to “Thriller” by Michael Jackson. The full ballet is roughly fourteen minutes long, so my edit is just a fraction of the performance, which is truly magnificent!! Please check out the link below! I am always amazed at the video production quality of the Jiří Kylián NDT ballet recordings (by NPS; Arthaus Musik). When I first encountered Jiří Kylián’s work (which was “Petite Mort”), I had assumed from the video quality alone that it must have been recorded within the past five years (at most), but NOPE! Many of the recordings, which are just as crystal-clear and high quality, d