miliosr Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 It's never too soon to start dissecting Benjamin Millepied's second season as artistic director! Link to comment
mussel Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 I predict 2 programs will be part of 2016-17 season, ABT's Beauty this September and Wayne McGregor's Tree of Codes. Tree of Codes had its US premiere last September at Park Ave. Armory, POB is one of the co-producers: http://www.armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/tree_of_codes Link to comment
kbarber Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Why would POB be doing Ratmansky' s Beauty when La Scala is its European co-producer? Link to comment
miliosr Posted January 29, 2016 Author Share Posted January 29, 2016 Why would POB be doing Ratmansky's Beauty when La Scala is its European co-producer? They wouldn't. ABT would be performing it as a guest company. Link to comment
ricaineballet Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Danses avec la plume posted some ideas for the 16-17 season and also what has already been publicly announced. http://www.dansesaveclaplume.com/en-coulisse/20044-saison-2016-2017-le-ballet-de-lopera-de-paris/ The certainties: A commission by Ratmansky to Schlaogobers by Richard Strauss Swan Lake during the Christmas season Tree of Codes by McGregor La Sylphide (Lacotte) and Daphnis and Chloé (Millepied) will be performed on tour in Japon. The POB frequently incorporates the ballets on tour into the season. It's highly likely these two also be performed in Paris next year. Invited companies: ABT with Sleeping Beauty (as stated above) and The DresdenSemperoperBallett. The Mariinsky is scheduled for January 2017 (reported by the Russian press quite a while ago already). The danses avec la plume article also suggests further possibilities and rumors not yet confirmed by the direction. The complete program for the season is supposed to be listed online on February 10. Link to comment
miliosr Posted January 30, 2016 Author Share Posted January 30, 2016 Wikipedia link to Schlagobers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlagobers Any ballet where Chartreuse is an actual character is A-OK with me. Also: "n earlier sketches, red banners were waved amidst the riotous proletarian cakes, with the Revolution Polka conducted by matzos." Maybe the French Communist Party could raise red banners during the performance??? (I have no idea what to make of any of this -- the whole scenario seems so bizarre, even by ballet standards.) Link to comment
choriamb Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 !!! It makes one long for the days when Ratmansky made nice, conventional ballets...like Namouna. (I think it will be crazy-fabulous.) Link to comment
sandik Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 From Wikipedia "Having overindulged, one boy falls ill and hallucinates, leading to the party of Princess Pralinée, a trio of amorous liquors, and a riot of cakes pacified by beer." Major fun potential, absolutely, but I'm wondering now if anyone has done any kind of comparative writing about the tendency in ballet to make movement for inanimate objects (not just foodstuffs, but that would certainly be a set)? To answer Doris Humphrey's question in some of her writing -- "What shall we dance about?" We shall dance about dinner. Link to comment
choriamb Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 We shall dance about dinner. [insert Dad joke about dinner theater here.] Link to comment
naomikage Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Paris Match reports the departure of Benjamin Millepied (apparently, an immediate one) All should be revealed at the press conference for the new season on February 10th. http://www.parismatch.com/Culture/Spectacles/Benjamin-Millepied-sur-le-depart-907585 Link to comment
silvermash Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Stéphane Lissner head of Paris Opera is holding a Press conference tomorrow about the topic! Link to comment
miliosr Posted February 3, 2016 Author Share Posted February 3, 2016 Mon Dieu!!! I guess Clear, Loud, Bright, Forward has now become Clear, Loud, Bright . . . Retreat! So, he lasted -- what? -- about 18 months?? And the biggest portion of that was implementing Madame Lefevre's final year of programming. Now, we are faced with the possibility not only of the company having to implement the remainder of his programming choices for 2015-16 but for all of 2016-17 as well. A lot of questions beyond who will be the successor. What becomes of 3e Scene? What becomes of the choreographic training program?? Link to comment
miliosr Posted February 4, 2016 Author Share Posted February 4, 2016 Legris would be a good fit but I hope Laurent Hilaire gets it after being passed over in favor of Millepied and losing out on the La Scala job. Other candidates would be Nicolas Le Riche, who has been very much at odds with Millepied, and, possibly, Roberto Bolle. Link to comment
ricaineballet Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 It seems Benjamin Pech will be taking over in the interim. He has already taken over as ballet master in the past year. I think it would be interesting to have him as director, though he might not have enough of a "high profile." Link to comment
sandik Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 I don't read French -- could someone post a precis of the Paris Match article? Link to comment
sohalia Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 I don't read French -- could someone post a precis of the Paris Match article? According to our informations, the famous choreographer and ballet master of the Opera de Paris is leaving his position... His appointment to the position was surprising in the closed world of ballet dancing: Millepied, this Frenchman who has had a career at the NYC Ballet, became in the fall of 2014 one of the youngest artistic directors of the Opera de Paris. His arrival was both welcomed and sometimes critized. Millepied represented this American ideal that would shake up and revive this ballet "house." Celebrities, galas and numerous sponsorships. The Opera de Paris, on the eve of presenting their new season on February 10th, is on the verge of communicating the possible rescission from Millepied. Many rumors were floating around... some mentioned the desire of his wife Natalie Portman to get back to the US. Others were pointing at the difficulty in decision-making, and how tedious of a process if it to want to make a change or suggest anything. Millepied was probably seeing himself more as a choreographer than someone doing admin work. They were asking him to be both. It appears he has chosen to get back his freedom, maybe to return to the LA dance Project, or to his many american friends and their numerous projects. The 2016/2017 season will present two new ballets created by Millepied, a program that now looks like a farewell. The choreographer will have boosted in two years a new generation of classical dancers, started a subtle revolution with the health of the dancers and the equipment (with new floors in the studios). His style however didn't win everyone over, and his hype in the media angered some... internally, the Opera didn't appreciate "Releve", a documentary on Canal Plus that followed him around. His impact however is for many very positive. The company has found a satisfying pace, that even the NYT applauds. Now everybody will have to be re-done, again. Who will follow in his footsteps? Will they pick a dancer or a personality coming from the Opera him/herself? Possible. In the meantime, we hope that Millepied will not forget his native land. Link to comment
Amy Reusch Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Roberto Bolle? Help, I can't temember his connection to the Paris Opera... ? Link to comment
miliosr Posted February 4, 2016 Author Share Posted February 4, 2016 Roberto Bolle? Help. I can't temember his connection to the Paris Opera... ? He's danced there, most recently when Aurelie Dupont handpicked him for her farewell performances in 2015. He's a glamorous figure on the international ballet scene and his entire career has been very classical in nature, which would be a point in his favor if that's the direction the Opera wants to go in next. The added advantage with him is that there wouldn't be the internal factionalism that would probably surround Hilare, Legris and Le Riche. The downside would be that Bolle would be another outsider taking the helm. Obviously, that didn't work out so well with the current occupant! But who knows? It's all just freewheeling speculation at this point. Link to comment
naomikage Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Here is an English article which makes us more easier to understand the situation. http://www.france24.com/en/20160203-millepied-quit-paris-ballet-reports Link to comment
silvermash Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 In today's Press Conference announcing his departure, it was said Millepied will remain in charge until the end of this season Link to comment
sandik Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 According to our informations, the famous choreographer and ballet master of the Opera de Paris is leaving his position...... Possible. In the meantime, we hope that Millepied will not forget his native land. Thanks you so much! Link to comment
sohalia Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Thanks you so much! Sure! I'm a native French speaker so always willing to help for these translations. Now the international press has picked up on it so you don't really need me anymore ;) Link to comment
ricaineballet Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 The season was released at the Opera tonight. Personally, I am thoroughly underwhelmed: ABT - Sleeping Beauty (Ratmansky) Gala Creation, In Creases, Creation, Blake Works (Sehgal/Peck/Pite/Forsythe) Mozartina, Violin Concerto, Brahms-Schonberg Quartet (Balanchine) The Leaves are Fading, Creation (Antony Tudor, Millepied) Swan Lake (Nureyev) Semperoper Ballett Dresden - Impressing the Czar Tree of Codes (McGregor) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Balanchine) A Bras-le-Corps (Charmatz) Ecole de Danse - demonstrations, gala Walkaround Time, Trio, Workwithinwork (Cunningham, Forsythe) En Sol, La Valse, Bolero (Robbins, Balanchine, Cherkaoui Jalet) Creations ( Bertaud, Bouche, Paul, Valastro )Works from dancers within the company La Sylphide (Lacotte) Creation (Millepied, Parreno) Link to comment
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