León & Lightfoot / Van Manen - Ballet - Season 18/19 Programming - Opéra national de Paris

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    León & Lightfoot /​ Van Manen

    Palais Garnier - from 18 April to 23 May 2019

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León & Lightfoot /​ Van Manen

Palais Garnier - from 18 April to 23 May 2019

Ballet

León & Lightfoot /​ Van Manen

Palais Garnier - from 18 April to 23 May 2019

1h25 with 1 interval

  • Opening night : 18 April. 2019

    Under 40 : 20 May 2019

About

In few words:

Despite their highly individual artistic universes, these three choreographers from the Nederlands Dans Theater share the same musicality and the same aesthetic quest. A duet with clear, pure lines, Hans van Manen’s Trois Gnossiennes adopts the sonorities of Erik Satie’s score of the same name. First-time guests Paul Lightfoot and Sol León bring two pieces into the Paris Opera Ballet repertoire alternating fixed poses, rapidity of movement and theatrical devices.

  • Opening
  • First part 40 mn
  • Intermission 20 mn
  • Second part 25 mn
  • End

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Backstage

  • Satie the mystic

    Video

    Satie the mystic

  • Podcast León & Lightfoot / Van Manen

    Podcast

    Podcast León & Lightfoot / Van Manen

  • Dance chemistry

    Video

    Dance chemistry

© Agathe Poupeney / OnP

Satie the mystic

04:36’

Video

Satie the mystic

Les Trois Gnossiennes, from music to dance

By Octave

In the repertoire of the Ballet of the Paris Opera since 2017, Hans Van Manen's Trois Gnossiennes returns to the Palais Garnier. On stage, a pas de trois brings together two dancers and pianist Elena Bonnay. For Octave she offers us the keys to interpreting Erik Satie's score. Being one with the dancers without betraying the composer and being one with the composer without betraying the dancers: that is the challenge she sets herself as she probes the mysteries of this meditative and hieratic work.  

© Elena Bauer / OnP

Podcast León & Lightfoot / Van Manen

Podcast

Podcast León & Lightfoot / Van Manen

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique

07’

By Jean-Baptiste Urbain, France Musique

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" offers original incursions into the season thanks to broadcasts produced by France Musique and the Paris Opera. For each opera or ballet production, Nathalie Moller (opera) and Jean-Baptiste Urbain (dance), present the works and artists you are going to discover when you attend performances in our theatres. 

© Agathe Poupeney / OnP

Dance chemistry

05:06’

Video

Dance chemistry

In rehearsal with Sol León and Paul Lightfoot

By Aliénor de Foucaud

Two ballets created by Sol León and Paul Lightfoot, resident choreographs at the Nederlands Dans Theater Company, enter the Paris Opera Ballet repertoire. The duo León/Lightfoot, whose choreographic language combines rapid-fire movements and fixed poses, has now created about fifty works. From erratic and dreamlike pictures in Sleight of Hand to spontaneous injunctions in Speak for Yourself, these works tend to reflect each person’s individuality and question the concept of alterity. 

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