
Keywords
- Performing Arts
- classical
- dance
- history
Actors
- Koen Kessels
- Claire-Marie Osta
- Dorothée Gilbert
- Mathieu Ganio
- José Martinez
Director
- Patrice Bart
Music, Dance, Theater
1h 52min
0 FSK
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Paris Opera Ballet Master and choreographer Patrice Bart plunges into the Opera’s past and brings Degas’ famous statuette "The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer" to life.
Paris Opera Ballet Master and choreographer Patrice Bart plunges into the Opera’s past and brings Degas’ famous statuette "The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer" to life.
For this project, Bart cooperated with composer Denis Levaillant, to translate the intrinsic modernity of a 19th century story into music and the language of the stage. From a mere investigation, the ballet became a quest to recreate the imaginative world of classical dance through the works of Degas.
The story was nothing less than the starting point for a wider exploration of the wings of the Paris Opera, a place infused with memories that do so much to evoke the troubling proximity between effort and performance, between the sublime and shameful, to which Degas’ work remains the perfect testimony.