Take the light, but differently. No longer under the lights of Garnier or Bastille but by writing, and thereby dispelling the mystery around her:
“People know me very little
,” she remarks. Aurélie Dupont sat down at her table to start recounting her life in October 2022, two months after leaving the direction of the Dance of the Paris Opera.
“Éditions Albin Michel asked me to write a passage. I wrote the one about
The Nutcracker
. Since I'm a hard worker, I corrected myself a lot before sending it. The publisher convinced me that no one could write the book for me,”
says the dancer. She spent a year on her computer, writing every day, sometimes for an hour, sometimes for seven.
“It was joyful to write
,” she says.
The result? Four hundred and eighty pages, entitled
Don't forget why you dance
, which will delight fans of details. Because Aurélie Dupont tells it all:
“I wanted a precise and perfectly honest text.”
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