Saison 2024-2025 - Opéra de Paris

[Marie-Ange]

@Mme Kanter, il est étonnant que vous évoquiez la danseuse Mc Intosh car d’après vos écrits habitués, sa danse gymnique n’est pas votre genre, son interprétation en copier-coller non plus, mais sans doute la danseuse française la mieux éduquée aux réseaux sociaux…

[Katharine Kanter]

I'd rather avoid personality conflicts here.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands of times, "Vestris", not to speak of prominent teachers and artists, have inveighed against this business with picking up the leg and turning every movement into the splits.

At the present time, If one can't do it, one gets thrown out of school. Every school.

Whereas Agrippina V. herself, was used to throw out class anyone she caught turning themselves into a Bretzel.

One can't blame McIntosh or any of her colleagues, for doing what is at the present, MANDATORY, failing which, they get the axe.

So, until we get this sorted, what I personally attempt to do, is to put out of my mind the obligatory leg-kicking, splits and Bretzelei, and listen to the underlying endeavour to communicate - like a river flowing beneath the pavement. And enjoy if possible, the other aspects of technique which may have escaped the Bretzelei.

Speaking of leg-lifting, over-stretching, dangerous lifts, and going over the shoe to get the big-arch effect - well, the conditions under which Ganio, Pagliero, Hecquet, Hoffalt, Hervé Moreau, Heymann and so many others have retired from the stage, do not seem to sufficiently exercise our conscience. Or the case of Ould-Braham, whose hyper-flexibility was exploited to such an extreme, that she never attained the superlative she might well have reached.

And it's no better in Russia. Kokoreva has just told an Italian website, that she weighs 42 kgs for 1m64 (about 7 stone for 5 foot 4). Normal, street weight for that height would be 55 kgs, and normal dancing weight in the 1960s, about 51 kgs. Do people realise what this means?

[TAHbKA]

[Gimi]

[Gimi]

Sur le site de l’Opéra est apparue la liste des 14 interprètes retenus pour la Création de Hofesh SHECHTER prévue du 10 juin au 14 juillet 2025 (voir ce fil).
Par contre aucune indication pour Sylvia de Manuel LEGRIS qui débute dès le 8 mai précédent 😢.

[Ballerina]

L'ensemble du ballet et de l'école de danse ne fera peut-être que le défilé ?

[Gimi]

[TAHbKA]

[Gimi]

[Jonquille]

Savez-vous comment sont organisées les distributions du spectacle de l'école de danse ? La distribution du 24 avril est-elle la même que celle du 26 par exemple ?

[Gimi]

[Jonquille]

J'ai également réservé ces deux dates mais, si quelqu'un constate des distributions similaires, j'aimerais bien être prévenue. Merci d'avance !