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At the Opéra de Nice, Éric Vu-An puts dance without borders in the spotlight

2021-10-14T14:34:29.890Z


PORTRAIT - With his “Black Dances Matter” program, which opens today, the artistic director of the Nice ballet intends to salute black creation.


Beauty of fauna, sharp mind, Éric Vu-An is also one of the most impressive dancers of the second half of the 20th century. He now directs the Nice ballet, where he offers a

Black Dances Matter program

. A question he felt in his flesh. As his name does not indicate, Éric Vu-An was born to a Lille mother and an African father. When balletomaniacs saw him emerge on the stage of the Paris Opera in the 1980s, some protested:

"Do we need a black Patrick Dupond in the troupe?"

Nureyev, who then directed the Ballet, swept aside these prejudices. Tatar himself, he had suffered from racial discrimination in the Kirov of Leningrad, where ideal princes dreamed of being blond with light eyes. He distributed Éric Vu-An in his creation of the

Tempête

, in

Don Quixote's

Basilio

at only 19 years old, and made him the first black Siegfried

of Swan Lake

at the Paris Opera.

“Controversies arise when history is forgotten.

Black Dances Matter

is

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Source: lefigaro

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