In today’s Star-Ledger, dance critic Robert Johnson named the Paris Opera Ballet performances, which came to Lincoln Center Festival last summer, one of the year’s best dance experiences. Bravo!
(Photo of the Paris Opera Ballet’s Giselle by © Sébastien Mathé)
Since this year’s release of the 3D dance film Pina, everybody has been talking about Pina Bausch. Impress your friends by actually seeing a Pina Bausch work performed live when the Paris Opera Ballet comes to the Lincoln Center Festival to present the choreographer’s dance-opera Orpheus and Eurydice. While you’re at it, watch this interview of Bausch during a 2008 Paris Opera Ballet rehearsal. It even has subtitles to make you feel more intellectual!
Tonight’s Paris Opera Ballet performance of Giselle features the lovely Aurélie Dupont in the title role. Dupont was made an Étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet in 1998 and is even the star of a documentary: L’espace d’un instant (2010). Check out the video for a preview of the star in action. Click here to find out the casting for the other performances of Giselle.
Witness a piece of history when the Paris Opera Ballet comes to the Lincoln Center Festival to perform Giselle, the seminal Romantic ballet choreographed almost two centuries ago specifically for this company. In this final scene from the ballet, Giselle saves her love Albrecht from the revenge-seeking Wilis who are forcing him to dance to death.
Tonight the Paris Opera Ballet performs a mixed program of works by French Masters of the 20th Century, including Roland Petit’s L’Arlesienne to music by Georges Bizet. Petit’s work is based off of a play by Alphonse Daudet, which tells the tragic story of the young peasant Fréderi and his love for the girl from Arles.
Get ready for the Paris Opera Ballet! The dance company made its first US stop in 16 years at the Harris Theater in Chicago two weeks ago, where it was met with great acclaim. The Chicago Tribune took a look at their productions of “Giselle” and “Boléro”, two of the pieces the ballet company will bring to Lincoln Center next week as part of Lincoln Center Festival. The Company is currently receiving glowing reviews for their run of ”Giselle” at the Kennedy Center. The tour’s grand finale begins here at Lincoln Center this Wednesday, July 11th and runs through Sunday, July 22nd!
For more information on these historic performances, visit www.lincolncenterfestival.org!
Catch a piece of history as the Paris Opera Ballet, the oldest national ballet company in the world, performs a program of works by French Masters of the 20th Century at the Lincoln Center Festival, July 11-12 and 15. The program includes Suite en Blanc (1943)by Serge Lifar, choreographer and principal dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet. Check out this great 1931 footage of Lifar showing off the skills he learned while studying at the Ballet Russes.
Click on the link above to see Time Out New York’s hub for all things Lincoln Center Festival 2012, which opens tonight!
After a 15-year absence from New York, the Paris Opera Ballet returns for the 2012 Lincoln Center Festival with three different programs highlighting the company’s exceptional style and versatility: French Masters of the 20th Century, Giselle, and Pina Bausch’s Orpheus and Eurydice.
(Photo by Laurent Philippe, Paris Match)
Marie-Agnes Gillot, Etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet, says that after studying the movement of real swans’ wings, she modified her arm gestures in Swan Lake. That’s according to this article about the new ballet by Luc Petton that features actual swans. No swans—real or otherwise—for the company’s Lincoln Center Festival engagement in July, but we’ll see Marie-Agnes Gillot as the lead in Maurice Bejart’s Bolero and as Eurydice in Pina Bausch’s Orpheus and Eurydice.
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