2023-10-25 17:31:12
CRITIQUE – The Opera troupe reveals all its subtlety in the interpretation of three pieces by the American choreographer, thus meeting its original requirements.
Anatomy of the couple on pages of atmospheric scores, signed Ravel and Chopin. This is how the Robbins program danced by the Paris Opera Ballet can be read, and the possibility of this reading delights: it has been a long time since the dancers had worn On the sun, In the Night et The Concert to such a degree of incandence.
In the Night, placed at the heart of the evening, sets the tone; it is undoubtedly Jerome Robbins’ most vibrant work. He watched over this piece with paranoid care: when he entrusted it to the Paris Opera Ballet in 1989, he demanded 189 hours of rehearsals, for 25 minutes of choreography. And demanded more. His obsession? Let the dance be an intimate, deep song, “not on the music but in the music”, serving the nuances of the feeling of love.
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On the sun, on Ravel’s eponymous concerto, which opens the evening, agrees with this point. Beach vacation. On a landscape in Erté where the sea evaporates lazily, two…
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