3e Scène

[pherank]

Coming September 15th - So what and where is 3e Scène?

https://instagram.com/p/62rjDXtabc/?taken-by=balletoperadeparis

New Leaders at Paris Opera Unveil an Ambitious Future
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/arts/international/new-leaders-at-paris-opera-unveil-an-ambitious-future.html

'Mr. Millepied and Mr. Lissner also announced the creation of “3e Scene,” or “third stage,” a digital platform on the Paris Opera Ballet website as of Sept. 14 for new work by composers, choreographers, directors, visual artists, filmmakers and writers. “We want to build a platform that creates our own content and provides a way to look at work coming from us without being in the actual buildings,” Mr. Millepied said.'

[Syrene Hvid]

I actually think this sounds really interesting! I follow the POB's Instagram and they've been posting about it the past couple of days...

[sandik]

I actually think this sounds really interesting! I follow the POB's Instagram and they've been posting about it the past couple of days...

I was thinking it was going to be an online component -- is that what it's sounding like?

[pherank]

I assumed it was an online presence of some kind, maybe hosted by one of the big streaming services already broadcasting European concert performances. Will there be world-wide access (probably by subscription)? I imagine Millepied would want that - and it certainly would put real pressure on other companies to be more digitally accessible.

Alas, there's so little information at this point, I could be way off. ;)

[sandik]

I think your description is the next logical choice for outreach -- hoping that you're speculating correctly!

[miliosr]

I'm taking a wait-and-see approach with 3e Scene. I remember when Christopher Wheeldon launched Morphoses and how that was supposed to be the next Ballets Russes in terms of collaborations between just the sort of people mentioned above. Whether 3e Scene has a long-term future will depend on how much of a future Millepied has at the POB.

[pherank]

I'm taking a wait-and-see approach with 3e Scene. I remember when Christopher Wheeldon launched Morphoses and how that was supposed to be the next Ballets Russes in terms of collaborations between just the sort of people mentioned above. Whether 3e Scene has a long-term future will depend on how much of a future Millepied has at the POB.

I think a successful online presence is something that would survive the creative director who gets it rolling. That's an idea that has been around for some time, but no company has had the money to really get it rolling. I assume POB will have to use a service like medici.tv

for streaming the performances - I can't imagine there being money to create a truly separate online platform for POB.

[volcanohunter]

The Paris Opera and Ballet productions that are televised also appear with some regularity on Culturebox, one of the online platforms of French state television. The Beethoven symphony cycle performed by the Paris Opera Orchestra and Philippe Jordan was streamed on Arte Concert, also the online platform of a television network. (Six, Eight, Nine and the Choral Fantasy are still accessible.)

[silvermash]

From the leaflet I have received as a subscriber, it's much more about a digital offer of what is not on the other stages. They have done a lot of shootings the past months with dancers in the opera premises but different things as well. They invited visual artists and other artists to muse over the arts of the opera.

[sandik]

From the leaflet I have received as a subscriber, it's much more about a digital offer of what is not on the other stages. They have done a lot of shootings the past months with dancers in the opera premises but different things as well. They invited visual artists and other artists to muse over the arts of the opera.

That sounds exciting -- have they said anything about access for those of us who are far from Paris?

[silvermash]

That sounds exciting -- have they said anything about access for those of us who are far from Paris?

no but I would assume it will be accessible from everywhere, it would be silly if it was not the case...

[tomorrow]

There's an interview with Benjamin Millepied up on Vulture about it. http://www.vulture.com/2015/09/millepied-on-one-year-at-the-paris-opera-ballet.html

It doesn't sound like it'll be all that focused on dance. :-/

[silvermash]

It's already available on Youtube POB channel...

[miliosr]

I watched the Laura video.

I don't know. Everyone moaned and groaned about Black Swan and how it depicted the ballet world but I don't see this as being a better advertisement. At times, the lead looks like she just stepped out of a horror movie.

Going off to watch Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse now to cheer myself up!

P.S. No one understands stubble like French males do.

[Syrene Hvid]

Now that I've watched a couple of the dance-related videos, I must admit that I think it's an absolutely fantastic idea and a perfect platform to boost the awareness of ballet as an art form to audiences who wouldn't otherwise access it, whether due to a lack of interest or exposure. Not to mention, a real treat for anyone interested in ballet already... I particularly loved the videos Nephtali and Laura, though Ascension was breathtakingly beautiful, too, and Etoiles, I See You was very entertaining and fascinating to watch.

About Laura... I actually loved this video so much, I can't even say. I think it did everything right that Black Swan got wrong - the intense absorbation into an art form that demands the impossible and the perfect from its artists every single day. Where Black Swan was just a look into the disturbed mind of a crazy girl who happened to dance ballet and thus, managed to portray the ballet world as a whole as unhealthy in general, Laura rather seemed to embrace the ballet setting and showed - with a sort of fond awareness - that ballet IS indeed a demanding profession and the people who become professionals in the field will have to give themselves fully, in every way. But at the same time, it showed this reality in the light of the beauty that we as an audience experience every time we attend a performance and the light I hope and trust that the dancers themselves see their labour basked in. Yeah, I really loved it. It woved me.

I'm looking forward to more of the same caliber.

[miliosr]

it showed this reality in the light of the beauty that we as an audience experience every time we attend a performance and the light I hope that the dancers themselves see their labour basked in.

This is where we'll probably just have to agree to disagree.

The only time "Laura" smiled in the present day was when she was talking with her colleagues on the roof of the Garnier. Otherwise, she only ever appeared to be really happy as a young girl, when the joy of dancing was alive within her. Watching the video, all I could think was, "What did the School and the Company do to her to kill that joy she had as a little girl?" (It also reminded me of the interview the ABT soloist Alex Hammoudi gave to Time Out in which he talked about how his early teacher, the great Max Bozzoni, advised against Hammoudi attending the School because he thought it would kill his desire to dance.)

In the video's favor, I will say (as I've said before) that watching Paris Opera Ballet dancers smoke is the best advertisement FOR smoking I've ever seen.

[Syrene Hvid]

Nothing wrong with disagreeing. However, I'll have to add that I purposedly didn't use the word joy, because I - like you - noticed the evident lack of outward happiness. It just so happens that I am a firm believer in struggle and hardship being able to create just as much beauty as joy, albeit of a different kind and it was this sort of beauty that I saw portrayed in the film and commented on.