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The idea of creating a ballet came to Brigitte Lefèvre, the Ballet’s dance director, after reading Martine Kahane’s research. Though numerous exhibitions, books and films had already been dedicated to Degas and dance, until then, no choreographic work had ever really done so. The project, entrusted to choreographer Patrice Bart and composer Denis Levaillant, took form around a central idea: to translate the intrinsic modernity of a 19thcentury story into music and the language of the stage. From a mere investigation, the ballet became a quest to recreate the imaginative world of classical dance through the works of Degas.
The story was nothing less than the starting point for a wider exploration of the wings of the Paris Opera, a place infused with memories that do so much to evoke the troubling proximity between effort and performance, between the sublime and the shameful, to which Degas’ work remains the perfect testimony.
With the Etoiles Clairemarie Osta, Dorothée Gilbert, Mathieu Ganio, José Martinez, Benjamin Pech, Elisabeth Maurin and the Premiers Danseurs, Stéphanie Romberg, Emmanuel Thibault.
Choreographer: Patrice Bart, Music: Denis Levaillant, Music Director: Koen Kessels, Set designs: Ezio Toffolutti, Costumes Designs: Sylvie Skinazi, Lighting Designer: Marion Hewlett
English
English, French
Production compagny : Telmondis
Coproduction compagny : Bel Air Media, Mezzo with the participation of France TV, Ciel Ecran and the support of the Centre national de la Cinématograph
Running Time : 1x110’
Production Year : 2010
Distribution compagny : Telmondis distribution
Video Format : HD CAM, Digibeta 16/9 , 4/3 Letterbox