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I wanted to say "IT" for the choreography and I use the female "She" like in French The choreography lacks of originality when you know Bejart, it's what I wanted to say : You're completely right Juliette ! I know also the rule but we want to translate how we speak in French and we forget the Grammary rules :shrug: !

I saw this choreography, she was well danced but she lacks of originality when you know Bejart's pdd. Against It was a pleasant choreography !

Estelle, the programm is so clear :rolleyes: that it's not Suzanne Linke who choreographied Les Familiers du Labyrinthe but Michèle Noiret . It's a new work of Suzanne Linka that we will have in this evening consacred to women choreograph. A very sad season too contemporary, no neo-classical and always the same ballets in classical :angry:

José Martinez won't dance Swan Lake with Lopatkina. He has a foot problem and cancel some performance as all the Kylian's performance in Paris and this Lake. I don't know if he will dance Etudes but it's sure for Swan Lake :shrug:

Yesterday night was the débuts in Giselle Part of Mélanie Hurel, she is a traditionnal Giselle too, in the POB style. She is a very shy peasant, who is attracted by the gentle way to be of Loys, he kiss her hands, a knee on floor for example. Technically she is very correct even if she is not as Aurélie or Agnès who have long high balance in their arabesque for example. Her madness is perhaps a few scolar, but she is interesting and could be a very good Giselle in future. In second act, she is very light, she makes any noise when she jumps, but she lacks of some torso movements. She was well partnered by Benjamin Pech, he is a perfect parner, his acting is very interesting and very modern too. I love when Bathilde discover the truth, the way he tries to said to her to not say nothing to Giselle, but it's too late. Technically, he is amazing with very good jumps, and superb battery. Nathalie Aubin, unfortunately injuried herself on stage yesterday night but I didn't love her Myrtha before, is it due to the injury or to her way to play her, I never know. I hope she will recover quickly especially she is a dancer who never injuried, it's hard to see that on stage. She was replaced by Muriel Hallé to make go out from wings and not from her grave the Ghost of Giselle. After she was replaced by the young Aurore Cordellier who was interesting in the few we saw her. Stéphane Elizabé is a good Hilarion, he knows that Giselle will never love him and he seems to accept but he wants open her eyes about the true Loys, he doesn't want act by revenge, but by love ! In peasants pdd, Myriam Ould Braham and Mallory Gaudion were technically excellent but they lacks of something, they seem dance "alone together" and never we saw the play between the two actor as wth Dorothée Gilbert and Alessio Carbone. Despite the injury of Nathalie, it was a very interesting evening, and very strangely I love also this traditionnal view of Giselle part :shrug:

I think it's the conception of the part who seems modern or not. Aurelie and Agnès made modern Giselle before their madness, especially Agnès who seems to look in side of Mats Ek's version without be like in. The both don't cry, don't run too over the stage when they feel the heart attack. They have too many little intentions in their acting before, with their look, their smile and it's difficult to explain. Mélanie Hurel I saw tonight was a very traditionnal Giselle too, she is not crying, but she runs too, she feels the cold freeze of death in her arm, but I don't know why I like more her madness than Cojocaru's one. And for the hairs, Agnes has all the time long hair as Cojocaru. Against Aurélie released some of her hair not all. It's very difficult for me to explain in english why I found Aurelie and Agnès modern. What is sure it's for me the best Giselle was Aurélie Dupont.

Yesterday night were the third previous cast for this serial of performance of Giselle. Title couple was Agnès Letestu and José Martinez. As Aurélie Dupont, Agnès has a modern view about the part, certainly because she is tall and too many people think that Giselle can't be small. She appears as a young girl very shy, and very special, she is not as Mats Ek' part, but she looks sometimes in this way, ot the girl with some problem. She is like a little girl and she is glad that Loys is interested by her. Her madness is very single too, very soft, but moving and it's the most important to my eyes. She doesn't make an old madness with cry, shouts, and so on. Her modern view is really glad to see. In second act, we find back Agnès more traditionnal with her back, her arms, her long arabesques. She is very fine in Marguerite's remember. Her partner was José Martinez who is a very interesting Albrecht, he comes to play with her. But in Giselle's madness, he felt something else, is it love, or is it sorrow and desire that Giselle returns in her true life. I don't know. At the second act, he makes an entry absolutely wonderful with all the regrets and the sadness of the world. His variation is a model of style, and his coda also where he ask for pity to Myrtha. really a beautiful Albrecht. It was certainly the most beautiful couple that I saw since the beginning, in the first cast, Aurélie is a wonderful Giselle, but her couple with Nicolas doesn't function every time. In the second cast, Manuel Legris is a wonderful Albrecht but his couple with Alina Cojocaru doesn't function. As Myrtha, Stéphanie Romberg is not so well dancing than Delphine Moussin, but she is more my view about Myrtha, very strong woman. Yann Bridard is a very interesting Hilarion very loved of Giselle and who wants not revenge but open her eyes. In Peasants pdd, Dorothée Gilbert, new sujet since last december and one of the big Hope of POB is a charming girl who completely understand style of the pdd and danced with lightness, charm, musicality, she was well partnered by Alessio Carbone, but he makes some little technical faults in his variation. Their couple is very good. In two wilis Soloist, a special mention to Natacha Quernet who is really extraordinary by her romantical style, her arms, her arabesque and so on. Certainly the most equilibrated Giselle I saw since the beginning !

I think audience has changed since 19e century, I loved a part of modernity in the way of dance a role. I think Giselle can be more modern than before. It's difficult to explain in english what I feel because I lack of vocabulary. It's evident that Giselle is a ballet from 19e century, but interprets are modern and dance for modern audience :shrug: ! I think my conception of Giselle is a traditionnal view but with a modern part. For example, Aurélie Dupont is completely Giselle, she is absolutely romantical in second act but in first act, with tradition she arrives to be modern and old ! Alina is a wonderful Giselle when you never see the ballet. But I saw several Giselle, and now I'm waiting for other thing I think :shrug: .

Thanks Naoko ! By a very strange way, I want a modern and romantic Giselle but I'm waiting for a traditional Myrtha :rolleyes: ! Yesterday, it was the debuts at Opera de Paris of Alina Cojocaru in the title role. I must say, I was disappointed by her, she is too traditionnal for me. She is a shy peasant, all what must be Giselle, but I think I didn't love this kind of Giselle, I prefer a modern vision of the part especially in Act1. And I think she was bad partnered by Manuel Legris, not because he is bad in his dance. He is Albrecht in his pure style dance, in his interpretation, but he is too old for the young Alina, and the couple don't function ! I was surprised also that she makes too many little technical faults in her variation in act 1. At the second act, she lacks of "body", she is just a spirit, for me Giselle is a spirit but a form of ghost and a ghost is a body without life, but a body. Alina is a spirit, she doesn't have this form of "body" :shrug: ! She is a pretty ballerina, I think she has stage fright because of parisian audience. I think I will find her very nice if I didn't see Aurélie Dupont the night before with her mixed way between modernity of her madness, and tradition and romantiscm in second act. I think I'm disappointed because I'm waiting too many of her interpretation due to all I read about her in all the forum and the reviews too ! Manuel Legris was handsome, with the French style, and he makes a wonderful variation in second act and a wonderful succession of entrechats 6. Naoko, you will love Eleonora too, she is herself a little more cold than Delphine but she is also a woman and not the queen of Wilis ! Against she lacks of something technically speaking. Yann Bridard is a modern Hilarion whose you can understand and love ! Corps was better than first night.

Yesterday will have the first performance of Giselle with the debuts in Paris of Aurelie Dupont in title part. She is a wonderful Giselle, she is a charmant peasant, happy to be in love, and who wants only love and dance. She is technically amazing in first act with slowned tours, high balance arabesque, she is musical too. Her madness is a modern madness far from cry and shout, not eye wide open, she doesn't know where she is but she remains all the attitude of Loys with her, she is afraid by her heart, but she doesn't want to become a wili as her mother told her. She is a modern and very classical Giselle. At the second act, she is the Spirit that Giselle must be, she is so light, and all her technic is absolutely wonderful with arabesques at the breach of balance, movement of torso, of arms, of feets, she is an uncredible Giselle for her first performance and will be one of the greatest ! She is a spirit desesperatly in love. Run to see her. Besides of her, Nicolas Le Riche is a good Albrecht, but he lacks of something in first act, we don't really see him, it's sure that he is in love with Giselle. At the second act, he is good partner and superb technically dancer. Karl Paquette is an usual Hilarion shared between love and hate, but we don't have any feeling for him. Delphine Moussin is perfect as dancer, but she is not Myrtha, she is not too cold to be the rude Queen of Wilis, we feel in her a woman who suffer but not a woman who wants to revenge of all the men. She is light too, but she suffers by the presence on stage of Aurelie. Corps is beautiful except in the cross over stage where we don't see one legs. In Peasants pdd, Mélanie Hurel and Benjamin Pech who will dance title roles next saturday are completely the character, she is a charming peasant girl, he danced very well. But the attraction of the evening was really Aurélie Dupont, the most beautful Giselle I saw since long years !

I wanted just to say, that after Bolshoi Tour in Paris, Maria Alexandrova became the new idol of French audience. Everyone who saw her said she was absolutely wonderful in Swan Lake, as Ramze or Aspicia or to finish as classical ballerina in The limpid Stream where she was absolutely amazing. Everybody dreamt to see her in leading parts in Paris !

It just want say that they passed Marguerite and Armand with Sylvie Guillem and Nicolas Le Riche on European Chanel Mezzo. The DVD must go out at the begining of March.

Estelle, it's not Denard , it's Guizerix who danced Abderam. These evening were filmed the 7 and 8 december 1983 and passed on TV in 1984. We can see highlights of these broadcast in the Dancer's dream DVD about Raymonda ! Concerning the version, Grigorovitch version is completely different, too many variations are changing. Nureyev version is very near of Kirov's one. You can see it with Kolpakova. Nureyev changed naturly men's variation and add some difficulties for ballerinas.

Kader Belarbi is not injuried he danced Trait d'Union, it was his partner Jeremie Belingard who was injuried. Against he doesn't want dance all the classical parts now, because he has back problems :shrug: !

Oops, Delphine was pregnant of her son with her husband Lionel Delanoe : ! Sorry for my bad english :shrug: ! She made also at the same period Street dancer. She must not dance Dryad Queen this time !

Yes Estelle, she danced Kitri in the last performance in the Georgiadis version. I don't want to say something silly, but I think it was with Manuel Legris and she was pregnant for her boy I know that I was surprised she was not cast when Don Quixote was staged on Bastille in new production. Delphine should dance Emeralds last season and danced, I believe too, in the first serial of performance. But with Aurélie Dupont's injury she was casted more on Rubies and didn't dance last year Emeralds.

Leigh, Delphine danced also the Diamonds soloist part in Jewels, which is an adagio, she danced Symphony in C, second movement also an adagio. for me she is one of THE lyrical ballerina of POB. She is cast in all the kind of part, and not only the rythmed movement ! She danced also Manon who is the lyrical part ! I hope it's not technical reason, and I don't think, Fanny Gaïda who was an etoile had the same kind of technical problem. I don't know which are the true reasons, but for me she is better than Laetitia Pujol or Clairemarie Osta !

Delphine Moussin is a wonderful dancer, she is able to dance classical ballets and contemporary repertory. She has not the most strong technic of the company but her level is high. She was not loved by Direction, I don't know why. I'm sad to see that she was not Etoile because, she is for me an etoile, she can all dance, with feeling. I adore her in Liebeslieder Walzer. I don't see her in Serenade this time, but she is a balanchinian dancer, she was gorgeous as Rubies principal soloist. She danced also Anastasia in Ivan at Bastille and she was really beautiful, with tendership, love, strenght. Now she is older to become danseuse étoile, but she merited this title.

Estelle, I suppose you want to say Sylvie Guillem , because Isabelle Guérin was première danseuse when she was promoted Etoile (after Bourmeister' Swan Lake performance), she replaced Sylvie Guillem in her post of premiere danseuse, because Guillem was nominated Etoile before she is officially a premiere danseuse and the place was free :rolleyes: !

Hi, has someone recorded Ashton's Cinderella on BBC2 and will be able to make me a copy . I love ballets from Ashton and I love too many Alina Cojocaru who must dance Giselle at POB in next february besides of Manuel Legris :rolleyes: ! Thanks by advance to contact me at my mail address cschemm@club-internet.fr !

I know that only Sujets are aythorized to dance in competition the Robbins "Other Dances" variations. Against all the other ballets of Robbins seems to be dance by all the categories. As Dorothée Gilbert raised up with Four Seasons Fall and Spring, Simon Valastro raised up with Dances at a gathering. For Lamentation it's a solo of 3'. We saw all the ballets in Celine Talon performance. On stage, she is in dark mood ! Concerning Mathilde Froustey, she is promising but she is very young in her dance and she was not at all in the asked style for peasants pdd of Giselle, she looks as a Princess and not as a peasant. And I was shocked in her Paquita' free variation by her lack of style too. Too dancer are so young than her and have more style. I remember Aurore Cordellier or Dorothée Gilbert as the same level and the same age and they always have style !!! For me the best female quadrille was Laura Hecquet, she is really a beautiful dancer, tall with style. She makes Raymonda acte II variation and she was at the same level than the coryphée whp have this variation as imposed one ! Dorothée Gilbert is a future etoile and she dance all as it was so easy to dance, too many people think that she could be directly promoted to première danseuse rank, especially than sujets don't make a beautiful concours. A mention to Nathalie Aubin' Cinderella, absolutely marvellous. unfortunately, Nathalie is too "old" to be promoted, but she was really a great artist ! For the men, I was absolutely shocked by the level of quadrille too many don't arrive to make the end of Sylphide variation which is a "tour en l'air" ended on the knee, it's very worrying ! For me the best quadrille was Sebastien Bertaud who was absolutely wonderful as Frederi in Arlesienne, he is ranked but the last of them. For the coryphée, Mathieu Ganio as Dorothée Gilbert is a future etoile, as he enter on stage and opens his arms, you are already gone in the world of the great dancer, handsome, high elevation, musicality, very very good dancer.

My "coups de coeur" are for Hervé Moreau as Aminta in Sylvia by Neumeier, I knew the classical possibilities of this dancer but he is also a great neo-classical, contemporary ballet. Nijinsky by Neumeier and particularly Alexandre Riabko smiling dancer who was a Nijinsky more insane than Bubenicek certainly due to his face more near to the Nijinsky's face. It was a ballet where the Strenght of the choreography is always showed One night Delphine Moussin and José Martinez danced Diamonds and they were absolutey perfect, it was not cold as when he danced with Agnès, it was a couple very exceptionnal ! Delphine Moussin as Rubies Soloist Dorothée Gilbert as Tchaïkovsky pas de deux, she was absolutely wonderful, I must say that now I have too many problem to see a good ballerina in this part after her, so she understood style and have the peps of this ballet. I must quote also Laura Hecquet who is a tall dancer, very beautiful who remains Platel by some points, she was not ranked in the last competition but she merits too many to be up in the hierarchy Aurélie Dupont and Clairemarie Osta as Manon, the first for her back on stage was absolutely exceptionnal of lyrism, she is Manon as the second. Laurent Hilaire in all the parts he had this year as Miraculous Mandarin, Des Grieux besides Sylvie Guillem, Chants du compagnon errant, this year in Four T or in Preljocaj's trait d'Union ! Monique Loudières who was absolutely amazing in Cinderella pas de deux, she is THE ballerina, and we don't have any dancer as her actually. In the tribute to Nureyev I love also Marguerite and Armand with Guillem, Swan Lake black Swan by Letestu, Martinez, also Bach Suite 2 by Kader Belarbi ! Other "coups de coeur" Benjamin Pech as Albrecht or in Prodigal son or against in Trait d'union he has an etoile potential. Marie-Agnès Gillot as Siren in Prodigal Son Liebesliederwalzer, a ballet unknown from Balanchine, but very enjoyable and what cast Letestu/Bart, Dupont/Hilaire, exceptionnal Moussin/Legris and Pujol/Pech alternating with Gillot, Gilbert/Paul, Ciaravola (new première danseuse)/Pech and Riqué/Duquenne My dislike was as Jean-Luc : Diana Vishneva in Manon, she is a perfect dancer if you speak about technic, but we have no interpretation, she dance with "bad taste" :shrug: Glacial Decoy, a ballet in silence by Trisha Brown I found no interest in this ballet except if you want to make work your memory and remember all the "Rauschenberg pictures you see

I spoke about the complete version of Romeo and Juliet with Monique Loudières, Manuel Legris, Charles Jude and José Martinez !

I don't know where you can find a picture if you have the DVD of POB Nureyev's version of Romeo and Juliet, she is one of the Capulets servants !

If it's the friend of Marie-Elise Ropers, it was Sophie Boulineau.