cinnamonswirl Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Apparently at this evening's premiere of Onegin, Isabelle Ciaravola and Matthias Heymann were named etoiles in a double announcement. Congratulations to both! Link to comment
cygneblanc Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Yeah, that's right. Congrats to both ! Link to comment
Natalia Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Fantastic! I have admired Ciaravola so much since she danced the Lifar LA BARRE in Delouche's film about Nina Vyroubova. Ciaravola danced exquisitely while Vyroubova coached her. Congrats to both. Between this and the Veronika Part news at ABT, this is a good week for promotions. Link to comment
Helene Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 to Mme. Ciaravola and M. Heymann. Link to comment
cygneblanc Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 And a thought for Myriam Ould-Braham who deserves to be a principal, too. There are now 9 women who are etoiles. That's a lot. And that means the journey of some youngest will still be long... Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Congratulations to them both! It's nice to see both Heymann's youthful talent and Ciaravola's perseverance rewarded. Link to comment
miliosr Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 As the Thibault fans despair . . . Link to comment
Estelle Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Thanks for the news, and congratulations to the newly promoted etoiles. I've seen Ciaravola a few times, and so far she has left me really cold (and I've had no opportunities to see Heymann, who is much younger). The promotion policy always is hard to understand- there have been years with almost no promotions, and now many promotions recently, and the number of females étoiles has changed a lot (without much rational explanation...) Also, there used to be nearly no promotions to étoile after 30 (I remember that when Carole Arbo and Fanny Gaïda were promoted in 1993 at 31 or 32, many thought it was a bit late) and now there have been several "late" promotions (Romoli, Moussin, Ciaravola...) Link to comment
cygneblanc Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Well, for once, I feel these promotions are deserved. About the number of principals: there is total number, that includes principals and premiers danseurs(seuses), men and women mixed, that can't be exceeded. Within that total number, the dispatching between the categories is free. For example, we could have 1 premiere danseuse, 12 etoiles women, 1 etoiles men, and 6 men premiers danseurs (these numbers are totally fanciful!). The news that you can be be promoted later in your career is rather good, but I wonder now about working margins of POB's new director. And since premieres danseuses positions were distributed with so much fantasy during competitions, it means that the youngest will have to wait for a long time or to be promoted directly from sujet to etoile... Link to comment
miliosr Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Could one of our French correspondents tell us what the current numerical distribution is between etoiles (male/female)/premiere danseuses/premiere danseurs? Thanks! Link to comment
cygneblanc Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Etoiles (9 women, 8 men) Isabelle Ciaravola, Emilie Cozette, Aurélie Dupont, Dorothée Gilbert, Marie-Agnès Gillot, Agnès Letestu, Delphine Moussin, Clairemarie Osta, Laëtitia Pujol Jérémie Bélingard, Mathieu Ganio, Mathias Heymann, Manuel Legris, Nicolas Le Riche, José Martinez, Hervé Moreau, Benjamin Pech Premiers danseurs (7 women, 7 men). Eleonora Abbagnato, Nolwenn Daniel, Eve Grinsztajn, Mélanie Hurel, Myriam Ould Braham, Stéphanie Romberg, Muriel Zusperreguy Yann Bridard, Stéphane Bullion, Alessio Carbone, Christophe Duquenne, Karl Paquette, Stéphane Phavorin, Emmanuel Thibault Link to comment
Mashinka Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I would have put money on Mathilde Froustey and Karl Paquette being the next couple promoted to etoile - just shows how wrong you can be. Heymann is wonderful though, I saw him dance Colas in Ashton's Fille a couple of years ago and I'm not surprised at his promotion: only surprised that it has happened so soon. Looking at the list of etoiles, I do think that few are as deserving of the title as the stars of the past and some aren't really that good in classical roles at all despite being excellent in modern roles. The same thing is happening at the Royal Ballet as well, a couple of principals being poor classicists. I've given up on hoping Thibault gets promoted, but would settle for just seeing him on stage occasionally, his only chance of becoming an etoile would be if a new director appeared with a commitment to the classical repertoire, but that now seems unlikely to happen. Link to comment
cygneblanc Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O28ykT32AWI A video of the promotion ! Link to comment
Amy Reusch Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O28ykT32AWIA video of the promotion ! May be... but it's "private"... not accessible anymore. Link to comment
cygneblanc Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 It used to be public Well, try this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uif5hIi7JCc Link to comment
cygneblanc Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 http://www.resmusica.com/aff_article.php3?art=6862 A long interview of Mathias Heymann Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 This is a link to a brief television interview with Mathias Heymann, including some performance footage from La Fille mal gardée. http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/culture/0,,4464318...s-heymann-.html Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 For Francophones, Ciaravola and Heymann answer viewer questions on French midday news. http://info.francetelevisions.fr/video-inf...RNIERES_MINUTES Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 A whirlwind look at a working day in the life of Isabelle Ciaravola, in class, rehearsing Nicholas Paul's new ballet Répliques, visiting the wardrobe department and on stage. http://culturebox.france3.fr/all/16954/Isa...p%E9ra_de_Paris Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted July 16, 2010 Share Posted July 16, 2010 Mathias Heymann does the pop thing, sort of. http://culturebox.france3.fr/#/opera/25390/sous-le-soleil-les-etoiles-l_union-originale-heymann-babx Link to comment
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