A junior ballet, schools in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Santiago de Chile and Brazil, mistreatment in dance put back on the agenda by the publication of Aurélie Dupont's Memoirs, accusations of racism within ballet, which gave rise to the Pap Ndiaye report... The executives are exploding and Élisabeth Platel, at the head of the Paris Opera Dance School, located in Nanterre for twenty years this year, is opening up to the reflection that is being organized . Calmly.
At the school, she currently has 154 students, exactly as many as there are dancers in the ballet. And think first of the immediate: the shows, from April 13 to 16 at the Palais Garnier, followed on April 17 by a dance school gala which brings together eight “accomplice” schools from Europe and America.
“For the school shows, I chose a link, that of French music, and I wanted to promote the French repertoire with two choreographers from the Paris Opera
,” she says.
From Roland Petit, rat to Garnier…