Special envoy to Toulouse.
It was called "Half-bottle", "The Teapot" or "Cloche-pied" and it measured 1.52 m. Lautrec's body, devastated by pycnodysostosis (a genetic disease that stops the development of bones), that of the women and men he paints, distorted by the electric atmosphere of the cabarets where he spends his nights, asserting his art, this is a subject for a choreographer:
It's annoying to see classical dance endlessly confined to
Swan Lake
,
Don Quixote, Giselle
or
Sleeping Beauty
. Ballet can translate many other stories! ”
Says Kader Belarbi, principal dancer of the fabulous Nureyev galaxy, and director since 2012 of the Ballet du Capitole in Toulouse.
He has been working on this project for two years.
His
Toulouse-Lautrec
should have seen the light of day in 2020. He has been assembling it since 2019 with a trio of stars from the cinema: the costume designer Olivier Bériot, loyal collaborator of Luc Besson, the scenographer Sylvie Olivé, and the composer
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