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2017 marks the 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution,

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one of the seismic events of 20th century history.

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Tonight, in Cardiff, as part of a season inspired by the centenary,

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National Dance Company Wales present a bold new take

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on one of 1917's most radical works of art.

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It's the rarely-staged Erik Satie ballet, Parade.

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MUSIC PLAYS

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Parade was a ground-breaking piece in its day.

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It was first performed in Paris

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and brought together some of the city's

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most cutting-edge artistic talent.

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The music was by the maverick composer, Erik Satie,

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the story by writer Jean Cocteau,

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and the remarkable costumes were created by Pablo Picasso.

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It was all performed

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by Sergei Diaghilev's legendary Ballets Russes.

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For this new production,

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the original ballet has been embedded in a story

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of political and technological conflict

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in which the audience plays a key part.

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The original Parade was set outside.

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It involved street performers, carnival acts

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circus troupe, so I was wondering, what is the contemporary equivalent?

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And I thought, well, it could be a political rally

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and we've become very familiar with that

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kind of as a genre in television,

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so I thought it would be great to create a fictional politician,

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in an interesting, surreal way.

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In the new story, the Wales Millennium Centre

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is reimagined as an enormous factory.

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Outside it, a politician addresses a crowd of workers

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and unveils her vision of the future -

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a humanoid robot.

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She believes that automation is the future,

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this is the ultimate product and, of course, the workers aren't happy,

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so they start to rebel and eventually kind of surround

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and subvert the robot,

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turning technology to their advantage.

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The action then moves inside.

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Here, the audience encounters a strange group

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of futuristic consumers, in a scene true to Parade's surreal roots.

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Finally, on stage, the story of the rebellious workers is resolved

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in an entirely new interpretation of Erik Satie's ballet.

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You're going to see a real transformation happening.

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You're going to see a scene at the beginning

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that's like a human production line -

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something very bland, very monotonous and repetitive -

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but out of that, you see these individual stories start to develop.

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These characters start to come out and from the mundane,

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you see the creative and the spark that's within each of them,

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exploring who they really are.

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While the ideas and the story of Parade have been updated,

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the music is Erik Satie's original score.

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But this was never an ordinary orchestral work.

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We've got quite a variety of instruments on the go.

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You've got two players

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doing the sort of comedy instruments, I suppose.

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The ones that are more "messing" around type instruments,

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which are things like the typewriter, the lottery wheel.

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This instrument, here, this is most challenging for me,

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this is the bottle phone, so it's like a piano keyboard

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that is laid out with bottles.

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As you see, they go from really quite enormous ones, here,

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these are vodka bottles,

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and it goes right the way up to the top to really tiny pill bottles.

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Extraordinary instruments then and now.

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The first performance of Parade ended in a near riot,

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with some members of the audience

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jeering and pelting the performers with fruit.

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Afterwards, the composer, Erik Satie, was taken to jail

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for abusing a critic.

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Well, hopefully, tonight's performance won't inspire

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such an extreme reaction, but we are in for an evening

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that breaks down the traditional performance boundaries

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and promises to take us all by surprise.

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DRUM ROLL

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MUSIC AND CHEERING

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It gives me great pleasure to be amongst you workers here today.

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I stand at the foot of your magnificent factory

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to commemorate the centenary of the Russian Revolution.

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CHEERING

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But why commemorate?

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Well, there's a great deal to learn from history.

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Workers, we are no strangers to revolutions here in Wales.

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100 years ago, coal was king and here in this very spot

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was a bustling port exporting 10 million tonnes of coal a year.

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We were small, but we were mighty!

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Wales was the world's first industrial nation.

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Wales was the coal metropolis of the world!

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But look at us now.

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Look at us now.

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Hmm? We have been stamped upon and silenced.

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We have been cheated and forgotten.

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This is not fake news.

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These are not alternative facts.

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We need to regain confidence in facing and forging our future.

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I... I have a vision, a vision for all.

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We in Wales, we have the ability, we have the technology -

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we can build a new world.

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Let me introduce you to your future.

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Embrace the new dawn.

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Embrace the robot revolution!

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Yes, automation is where we can lead.

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SHE SHOUTS

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I see you feel threatened. I understand.

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I can assure you, there's no need.

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Re-channel that energy for the good of us all.

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Let us show the world again.

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SIRENS WAIL

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SHOUTING

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ALARM BLARES

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MUZAK PLAYS

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Well...

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..thank you for the invitation to join you inside.

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It's, er...

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It's much bigger inside, isn't it?

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Er, I understand you have prepared some entertainment for me.

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After all, my purpose here today was to commemorate

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the Russian Revolution, the cultural explo...

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The cultural explosion marking the centenary,

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marking the centenary.

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Thank you. Diolch, spasiba.

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Diolch, spasiba.

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APPLAUSE

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MUSIC: Parade By Erik Satie

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MUSIC GENTLY PLAYS

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MUSIC BECOMES MORE DRAMATIC

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MUSIC BECOMES MORE DRAMATIC

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MUSIC GENTLY PLAYS

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MUSIC GENTLY PLAYS

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MUSIC BECOMES MORE DRAMATIC

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MUSIC PLAYS FASTER

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TYPEWRITER CLACKS

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POPS LIKE GUNFIRE

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MUSIC PLAYS

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MUSIC BECOMES MORE DRAMATIC

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STEAM WHISTLE BLOWS

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MUSIC GENTLY PLAYS

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MUSIC BECOMES MORE DRAMATIC

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MUSIC GENTLY PLAYS

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MUSIC PLAYS FASTER

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MUSIC BECOMES MORE DRAMATIC

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SIRENS WAIL

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MUSIC STEADILY BECOMES MORE DRAMATIC

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MUSIC GENTLY PLAYS

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GATE BANGS AND CREAKS

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SLOW HEARTBEAT

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-ROBOT:

-The mediator between head and hands must be the heart.

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STEADY HEARTBEAT

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APPLAUSE

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