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Benjamin Millepied on all fronts

2022-09-14T15:27:45.300Z


The choreographer offers his version of Romeo and Juliet at La Seine musicale. He will be at the Châtelet in October and will be dancing next year at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Meeting with an increasingly committed artist.


Here it is again.

After spending confinement in Australia, Benjamin Millepied now lives between Paris and Los Angeles.

And for good reason: his company of 18 dancers, the Los Angeles Dance Project (LADP), is celebrating its tenth anniversary with, among other things, an important program in Paris.

“Which remains the capital of dance in the world.

In which other city do you find several theaters that program every evening and are sold out?

All the choreographers in the world perform there and it is only there that I can fill 45,000 places with three different programs in the year”,

he says.

The exact reverse of what is happening in Los Angeles.

Already in 2020, to reach his LADP, it took a long time through traffic jams and honking concerts worthy of the musical

La La Land

.

In the neighborhood, the place of Benjamin Millepied seemed incongruous.

When you said the word "dance" to find your way, passers-by would direct you to the Dames and Games, "bar and restaurant...

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Source: lefigaro

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