Love to death
The English choreographer Matthew Bourne likes to place the action of the great classical ballets at the very heart of our history and our contemporary societies.
When he created
Cinderella
, to the music of Prokofiev, he shifted the action to the London Blitz;
for his version of
Swan Lake
, he only has men dancing.
He arrives in Paris with a
new-look
Romeo +
Juliet .
Romeo loves Juliet, Juliet still loves Romeo and, as is often the case, this love story will end badly... In this version everything happens in a unique setting, a vast room completely tiled in white, hospital or boarding school atmosphere from the 1950s, with the girls on one side and boys on the other.
We think of confinement, of confinement, with dance, music and love as escapes.
The dance is physical, often joyful;
the youth and vitality of the performers work wonders in this version which does not forget that violence (sound and visual) can often be the only response to a world made of prohibitions, constraints and submission, and that sometimes the love to death is the only path to the conquest of freedom.
BB
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Roméo +
Juliet
, by Matthew Bourne, from March 9 to 28, at the Théâtre du Châtelet, in Paris.
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Coronation, ballets and video
Self-portrait of Evangelia Kranioti, video artist.
Evangelia Kranioti.
The Ballets Russes arrive at the Philharmonie for an exceptional concert, the result of a collaboration with the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
This is carte blanche given to three video makers who revisit Stravinsky's legendary ballets:
The Firebird
by Rebecca Zlotowski,
Petrouchka
(in its 1947 version) by Bertrand Mandico, and
The Rite of Spring
by Evangelia Kranioti .
The latter, born in 1979 in Athens, takes the scandalous work of 1913, a symbol of modernity, to offer an ecofeminist reading which transforms this pagan ritual into a warning against the domination and oppression of women.
L.C.
Ballets Russes, concert with video, February 28 and 29, at the Philharmonie de Paris.
philharmoniedeparis.fr
The art of escape
Les Échappés
, by Renaud Rodier, Éditions Anne Carrière, 400 p., €23.
Press.
This Sciences Po graduate has been leading humanitarian missions in countries at war for twenty years, and he offers us an impressive first novel, inhabited by several characters, all on the run in one way or another.
Lauren leaves Kansas after a deadly shooting, Aaron is burdened with the legacy of his mafia father, Émilie loses her speech after a translation error at the United Nations... Precise and dense writing to weave a singular and fascinating portrait of a generation struggling with a world turned upside down.
IP
Les Échappés
, by Renaud Rodier, Éditions Anne Carrière, 400 p., €23.