She climbed onto the table behind the black curtain. His heart must have beaten too hard. This Sunday afternoon, Alice Renavand danced Maurice Béjart's Bolero for the second time in her life, after having premiered it three days earlier. And was saying goodbye to the Paris Opera for the second time. The first was on July 13, 2022. She had chosen to leave, as this time, on a role: Giselle, to fly in the beaten jumps and bewitch legato. Taste the immateriality of dance, in the ballet that is specially dedicated to it.
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In the second act, she had run away. Mathieu Ganio, his partner, had wandered on stage, another Giselle had entered, Bleuenn Battistoni. One star rose when another went away. Farewell postponed for Alice, said Alexander Neef. But when? The next day's MRI revealed a rupture of the cruciate ligaments in the right knee. At the end of the operation, in September, her surgeon promised her that she would be...
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