The word has only three letters.
It opens a continent.
Still fragile, but exciting:
Pit
is the name of the creation that Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber have just created for the Paris Opera Ballet.
On the stage, a large raised stage bordered below by chairs.
The raised curtain is revealed on twenty dancers seated on them, on the right, courtyard side, at an angle of the stage.
A woman put her feet there.
They are wearing stiletto heels.
The metaphor of desire therefore opens the play, it will develop until the end when a man devours a chocolate shoe.
It sets the tone, on the thread of a complex score: the violin concerto by Sibelius with additional music by Celeste Oram.
Love, death, momentum, nature, loneliness, fear: this is the highly emotional score that the dancers grapple with.
No decor, however.
The stage presents itself as a box of gray walls, with a ladder that rises on one…
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