2024-04-21 03:00:49
“Show that creation, in dance, is not reserved only for the contemporary world”: with his ballet “Dans le yeux d’Audrey”, presented on Tuesday in Paris, the choreographer François Mauduit, former soloist Maurice Béjart, imagines on. point, the “glitter” side but also the intimate side of Audrey Hepburn’s life.
The 40-year-old dancer, who has led a neo-classical dance company bearing his name for 18 years, wanted to combine “the bright and exciting side of the icon, the star” of the cinema with his personal life and hers. dream to be a ballerina too,” he confided to AFP.
With some 60 years (the actor lived from 1929 to 1993) of existence, “for choreography, as for the dancers, it is interesting. It allows you to work on many different eras and styles”, on music from Leonard Bernstein. to Léo Ferré, he said.
Choreographer François Mauduit, March 7, 2024 in Paris / JOEL SAGET / AFP / Archives
In this show, “where we use pointe shoes, of course”, “there is something ‘very classic’, the perfume of Georges Balanchine (choreographer of the 20th century, Editor’s note), but also passages that remind Maurice “Béjart ,” even if I am he does not have the talent”, says the one who was a soloist in the company of the famous dancer and choreographer based in Switzerland.
François Mauduit started dancing late, at the age of 14. He was admitted to the Paris High School, he joined the Paris Opera dance school, which he left in his last year. Maurice Béjart quickly hired him, he stayed four years in his company, then he left to create his own choreography.
“ballet everywhere”
“I like to prove that with any story, we can create using classical vocabulary. “We can have a live classical dance, that lives with its time, that deals with its time,” says the man who likes to go back to standards like “Swan Lake”.
Another belief: “put the ballet on point everywhere”, including in small and medium-sized towns. At first, he and his friends performed in the summer in village halls or outdoors in seaside resorts on the Normandy coast.
Choreographer François Mauduit, March 7, 2024 in Paris / JOEL SAGET / AFP / Archives
“Dans les Yeux d’Audrey” went through Bollène (Vaucluse) and will reach Sens (Yonne) in June or Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine) in September. His older works (“Pluie d’Etoiles Story”, “Romeo et Juliette”, “Cléopâtre”) will be danced in the coming weeks in Dax, Draveil (Essonne) or La Teste-de-Buch (Gironde).
According to him, the “big productions shown in the Zéniths (in metropolises, editor’s note), which are somewhat standardized, are not the most representative of classical dance in 2024”.
Although the companies of the leading houses – Operas of Paris, Bordeaux, Toulouse … – “are at an excellent level but they do not go on tour”, regrets the dancer with brown hair and dark eyes.
His group of twelve dancers based in Toulouse, who have performed 80 ballets in 18 years, say they do about fifty shows a season.
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