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    Paris Opera Ballet School performance...how to get tickets?

    in Everything Else Ballet

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    There are 4 ways of having tickets :

    You can buy some tickets on POB's website. Right now, there are a few of them for december 12 th. Unfortunately, POB's site is only in French and there is no way of inserting a direct link to reservations.

    You can try to call at 33 1 72 29 35 35 to see if some tickets are still available but it's only in french and there are very few chances that tickets be still available

    To queue before performances, because a few tickets are always being sold 15 minutes before the beginning but in order to have one of these you need to be there 3 to 4 hours before the actual beginning and to queue standing for a long time.

    When you are in Paris, you may try to go to the tickets offices during the day. You might be lucky and find a ticket.

    Don't buy your ticket to people who are sending them in the street, because it's forbidden by laws, you might end with a false ticket and/or pay it more than its real price!

    Maurice Béjart's death

    in Ballet News & Issues

    Posted

    Some more news :

    http://www.operadeparis.fr/Accueil/Actualite.asp?id=403

    There will be a Bejart's triple bill at POB next year

    http://www.lexpress.fr/info/quotidien/actu.asp?id=461943

    Feedbacks from patrick Dupont, Brigitte Lefebvre, POB's AD, and Christine Albanel, French secretary of State for Culture.

    http://www.levif.be/actualite/culture/72-6...ice-bejart.html

    Ashes of the deceased should be scattered on a beach in Ostende, Belgium, in the next few days.

    Maurice Béjart's death

    in Ballet News & Issues

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    Well, Bart the sentence "If dance has a public today, it is because of Maurice Bejart" is actually a litteral translation of Claude Bessy's own words.

    Personaly, I wouln't go as far as Claude Bessy, but I think it is because I'm too young for having known well what seems to be Bejart's most flourishing years, I mean in the 1960-1970 years. I think she means that Maurice Bejart was the one who democratized ballet in Europe and brought it to wider audiences in unusual venues. In that sense, I think she's right. A lot of young dancers I know have a real devotion and fascination for Maurice Bejart. The experience of dancing Variations Don Giovanni and working with Shona Mirk (I may be wrong with her name's spelling) was incredible for them. It is also true that Bejart's name is synonim of ballet/dance among general public. As for myself, I'm not a fan at all of its works, but I appreciate the intellectual process which sustain them and his writings are most interesting. May he rest in peace.

    Maurice Béjart's death

    in Ballet News & Issues

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    http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/people/0,,3629238,...oregraphe-.html

    Claude Bessy's feedback. She's very moved. It's very unusual to see her like that when you have known her as POB's school director. She is saying that:

    1) She saw Maurice Bejart last week. He wanted to die, because he was suffering very much.

    2) He made necessary legal arrangements. Gil Roman may take the lead in Lausanne. The legal rights of MB's works have been given to several dancers.

    3) He seemed to have asked her to be a supervisor in this process, but it isn't very clear

    4) If dance has a public today, it is because of Maurice Bejart

    A new Etoile at POB

    in Dancers

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    Yes, they get a pension at 42, and like former militaries who get retired very early too, they get their pension and as militaries, are free to do something else at the same time. For some of them, it can be quite lucrative. Please note I'm saying it is lucrative for some of them. It certainly isn't for evereyone. We will note collective agreements ruling POB's dancers' status can't be found on Legifrance, the official site where almost all french laws can be found, while most of that sort of agreements can be viewed on that site. It seems POB and artists trade union don't wish dancers agreement to be made public.

    Carlos Acosta's Autobiography

    in Writings on Ballet

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    Well, I read this book and was a bit disapointed. It's a very easy book to read. Carlos Acosta speaks a lot of his off-stage life but we don't learn much about his feelings on his art, ballets he danced in or his own choregraphical experience. Yet one can't say it is uninteresting. The account of the author's cuban years are worth the reading. It looks it is aimed to a general public and not only to ballet's fans. It is sold in a lot of booktstores in London, including Harrod's Waterstone

    Bejart's "The Firebird"

    in Ballets and Choreographers

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    Well, personnaly, I'm not very fond of most of his works, but his thought is most interesting. I don't know if his books have been translated in English but if they are it's worth the reading. I would say that somewhere, they're more interesting than his choregraphical works. In Europe, he's still a myth, including among POB's school students. His work I like the most is Don Giovanni's Variations. I really enjoyed it but I guess that must be his most classical choreo...

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