George Balanchine - Ballet - Season 19/20 Programming - Opéra national de Paris

  • Ballet

    George Balanchine

    Opéra Bastille - from 03 February to 01 April 2020

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George Balanchine

Opéra Bastille - from 03 February to 01 April 2020

Ballet

George Balanchine

Opéra Bastille - from 03 February to 01 April 2020

2h00 with 1 interval

COVID-19 : cancellation of the performances

About

In few words:

This tribute to the art of Balanchine brings together three works of pure dance from the choreographer’s first American period. Three ensemble ballets in which bodies resonate like the instruments of an orchestra. Set to the music of Bach, Concerto Barocco crossfades a succession of forms beckoning to the gaze like the decorative components of a baroque architecture. The Four Temperaments offers a visual counterpoint to Paul Hindemith’s variations. Like the moods that transfuse humans, this fluid and mercurial ballet combines consonance and dissonance in a composition at once rigorous yet unimpeded. In Serenade, Balanchine evokes the Russian heritage of Tchaikovsky his master, and the modern bodies of the young New Yorkers he met on his arrival in the United States. A snapshot of its times, the ballet’s romantic atmosphere also evokes Les Sylphides by Fokine, another master revered by Balanchine.

  • Opening
  • First act 55 mn
  • Intermission 20 mn
  • Second act 30 mn
  • End

Performances

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Audio clips

Concerto Barocco - Jean-Sébastien Bach - 2eme Mouvement

Sérénade - Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovski - 4eme Mouvement

Concerto Barocco - Jean-Sébastien Bach - 3eme Mouvement

Backstage

  • Pure and feminine energy

    Video

    Pure and feminine energy

  • Searching for light

    Video

    Searching for light

  • "Dance me a blue place"

    Video

    "Dance me a blue place"

  • The Opera is showing off : George Balanchine

    Article

    The Opera is showing off : George Balanchine

  • George Balanchine, on ode to femininity

    Video

    George Balanchine, on ode to femininity

  • « The logic of the movements »

    Video

    « The logic of the movements »

© Svetlana Loboff / OnP

Pure and feminine energy

02:29’

Video

Pure and feminine energy

Héloïse Bourdon in Balanchine’s rehearsal

By Antony Desvaux

At the occasion of the George Balanchine Special Evening, where dancers of the Ballet will have performed three pieces from the choreographer’s first American period, Octave magazine interviewed Héloïse Bourdon. The Première Danseuse discussed Balanchine’s neo-classical style, her almost carnal duet with Marion Barbeau in Concerto Barocco, and her swift, feminine role in Serenade. 

© Svetlana Loboff / OnP

Searching for light

01’

Video

Searching for light

Marion Barbeau in Balanchine’s rehearsal

By Antony Desvaux

At the occasion of the George Balanchine Special Evening, where dancers of the Ballet will perform Serenade, Concerto Barocco and The Four Temperaments, three pieces from the choreographer’s first American period, Octave magazine interviewed Marion Barbeau. The Première Danseuse discusses her taste for Bach’s bright music and her work along the Balanchine Trust ballet master Diana White. She evokes the joy of dancing in these feminine ballets, so typical of Balanchine.

© Svetlana Loboff / OnP

"Dance me a blue place"

03:47’

Video

"Dance me a blue place"

In rehearsal with Emilie Cozette

By Antony Desvaux

Serenade, Concerto Barocco and The Four Temperaments: three works by Balanchine, from the choreographer’s first American period, brought together and performed by the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet on the occasion of a tribute evening. Octave Magazine interviews the Etoile Émilie Cozette to learn more about her work in rehearsal.

© Anne-Margot Ramstein

The Opera is showing off : George Balanchine

Article

The Opera is showing off : George Balanchine

When illustrators interpret the19/20 Season their way

01’

By Anne-Margot Ramstein

Octave gives free reins to some illustrators to portray their way the 19/20 Season, by revisiting one show poster of their choice. Anne-Margot Ramstein decided to illustrate the George Balanchine ballets performance.

© Anne-Margot Ramstein

© Svetlana Loboff / OnP

George Balanchine, on ode to femininity

02:25’

Video

George Balanchine, on ode to femininity

In rehearsal with Valentine Colasante

By Aliénor de Foucaud

In an interview by Octave Magazine Valentine Colasante tells us more about the George Balanchine Special Evening, where dancers of the Ballet will perform Serenade, Concerto Barocco and The Four Temperaments, three pieces from choreographer’s first American period. Evoking Balanchine’s abstract and timeless work, a pure blend of delicateness and technique, the Etoile dancer shares with us the joy she feels each time she performs one of his ballets.  

© Svetlana Loboff / OnP

« The logic of the movements »

02:31’

Video

« The logic of the movements »

Silvia Saint-Martin in Balanchine’s rehearsal

By Antony Desvaux

On the occasion of the tribute to George Balanchine, where dancers of the Ballet will perform Serenade, Concerto Barocco and The Four Temperaments, three pieces from the choreographer’s first American period, Octave magazine interviewed Silvia Saint-Martin. She tells us more about the Balanchine’s repertoire and the different roles she’ll perform for the first time as Première Danseuse, roles that she will embody each evening on the Bastille’s stage. 

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