Annual Concours - November 6th and 8th

[miliosr]

The annual competition for promotion is this week. Hopefully, some of our French correspondents will report!

Here are the number of positions in play:

1 - première danseuse/3 - sujets (f)/3 - coryphees (f)

2 - premiere danseurs/3 - sujets (m)/2 - coryphées (m)

[ECat]

Very exciting indeed!  I would love to see Charline Giezendanner promoted to Premiere Danseuse.

 

[miliosr]

From the competition program:

The women's field:

https://www.facebook.com/dansomanie/photos/a.383575178480097/1293924747445131/?type=3&theater

The men's field:

https://www.facebook.com/dansomanie/photos/a.383575178480097/1293925034111769/?type=3&theater

By my count, there are 32 women competing and only 24 men. Is the competition less of a "thing" for the men than the women? (Only 5 men competing in the sujet-to premiere danseur classification. Did all the male sujets over 30 just say: "To Hell with it"?)

 

Edited November 6, 2019 by miliosr

[silvermash]

From POB official release

Hohyun Kang, Célia Drouy and Clémence Gross promoted to Coryphées

Letizia Galloni, Caroline Osmont and Naïs Duboscq promoted to Sujets

Sylvia Saint-Martin promoted to Première danseuse

Edited November 6, 2019 by silvermash
to announce Première danseuse position

[miliosr]

Antonio Conforti and Nikolaus Tudorin promoted to coryphees

Florent Mélac, Simon Le Borgne and Thomas Docquir promoted to sujets

[silvermash]

Franceso Mura and Pablo Legasa to Premiers Danseurs

[miliosr]

Fun fact: Nikolaus Tudorin, Thomas Docquir and Pablo Legasa all danced the Dancer in Brown's first variation from Dances at a Gathering, And they were all promoted!

Otherwise, the results weren't terribly surprising in the men's competition. Simon Le Borgne was the lead in Alexander Ekman's Play and Thomas Docquir was highly cast in the company's most recent revival of Swan Lake. So the competition results just caught up to events.

[ECat]

Congratulations to all who were promoted!

 

So they get to choose their variations or are they assigned?

 

[miliosr]

30 minutes ago, ECat said:

So they get to choose their variations or are they assigned?

For the first round of each classification, there's an imposed variation. In the second round of each classification, each competitor gets to choose their own free variation.