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Olga Smirnova, the rebounding Russian dancer

2023-04-24T16:12:30.467Z


Bolshoi star, she left her country a year ago when Ukraine was invaded. Hired by the Ballets d'Amsterdam, she performed La Belle, by Jean-Christophe Maillot, at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco.


Special Envoy to Monaco

Noon splashes the studios of the Atelier des Ballets de Monte-Carlo.

Great sunshine on the white walls between which the dancers, abandoned in the middle of the courtyards, bask, and run snippets of

Sleeping Beauty by

Tchaikovsky.

A "waltz", an "air of the fairies", the "adage to the rose" In the large studio, Jean-Christophe Maillot, master of the place, resumes La Belle, which he had choreographed in 2001. Ernest Pignon

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Ernest designed the scenography, Jérôme Kaplan, the costumes.

Nice idea: Carabosse - mother of the prince - wears gloves with huge fingers, sharpened like spears, which immediately pose the character.

She threatens Aurore, Désiré and their offspring.

Aurore doesn't know it yet.

Innocent, she seems, surprised by the world and locked in a bubble that a fingernail would be enough to burst.

She walks in it, with small steps or on her toes, widening her eyes, barely opening her chest, playing with the princes, having fun with their presence around her...

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Source: lefigaro

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