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At the Paris Opera, the dancers face the Covid-19

2020-09-21T17:43:53.778Z


Faced with many positive cases, the Parisian institution is sharpening its health protocol before its curtain raiser scheduled for early October. A puzzle for productions that require large staff.


The evil arose at the start of the school year.

The Ballet du Rhin was the first to take over the stage with a fanfare on September 5 in Strasbourg.

Three days later, he announced that he had to interrupt his performances: one of his dancers had tested positive for Covid-19.

Chaplin

, whom the troupe celebrated on stage with tangible enthusiasm, could not help it.

This virus is a dictator.

Enough to shower the hope of a return to normalcy and a fluid recovery, in all the Ballets de France that the Covid-19 crisis has intensely brought together.

At the Paris Opera on September 7, an internal

press

release mentioned

“10 cases of Covid-19 among the artistic staff of the dance management”.

At the Ballet de Biarritz, which was to open the Le Temps d'aimer festival this weekend, Thierry Malandain was pleased that the sea air had swept the virus away, at least for the moment.

How should we proceed from now on?

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Source: lefigaro

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