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“An Evening with Nederlands Dans Theater.” Home Vision. $39.95. Czech choreographer Jiri Kylian is showcased with four works taped between 1980 and 1984. His hyperactive interpretation of Stravinsky’s “Les Noces” is no substitute for the more incisive Nijinska or Robbins versions, but it does display his company’s remarkable power and discipline. The brooding modern-dance quartet “La Cathedrale Engloutie,” the celebratory, balletic showpiece “Sinfonietta,” the taut, quasi-dramatic duet “Torso” all reveal Kylian’s original sense of partnering, musicality and his fluid assimilation of idioms. “L’Enfant et les Sortileges.” Home Vision. $29.95. Kylian has staged Ravel’s one-act opera (about a boy who learns the consequences of violence) as a fast-moving fantasy ballet danced to the Lorin Maazel recording. Iridescent, overscale scenery and costumes by John MacFarlane create a perfect child’s-eye view of a familiar domestic panorama. The magic is compounded by spectacular dance stylizations of cats, clockworks, frogs and flames. Information: (800) 826-3456. “Evening”: ***, “L’Enfant”: *** 1/2

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