Pina Bausch at the Paris Opera is a bit like
Swan Lake
: the 22 performances are sold out (or almost).
The difference is that rosaries of visitors leave the hall during intermission.
The Opera audience adored
The Rite of Spring
and
Orpheus and Eurydice
by the choreographer from Wuppertal.
Many spectators evoke their discovery as their road to Damascus.
A shock.
A conversion.
A passion.
Kontakhof, who
entered the repertoire of the Opera ballet on Friday evening, can be disconcerting.
It is not at all of the same water.
The Rite
and
Orpheus
were carved out of pure dance;
Kontakthof
looks towards the theater.
Dancefloor movements alternate with a range of gestures, taken from everyday life, ways of saying - but just with the body - what we think quietly and that it would be better to keep quiet.
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A ballroom, gray walls with moldings and, in the background, a stage with a drawn gray curtain.
At his feet, a row of chairs.
On the side, doors, a piano…
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