Dance, concert, novel. This week’s editors’ picks for the top things to see and hear.
Love till death
English choreographer Matthew Bourne likes to place the actions of the great classical ballets at the heart of our history and our modern societies. When he creates Cinderella Under Prokofiev’s music, he moves the action to the London Blitz; for its version Swan Lake, she only makes men dance. A arrives in Paris Romeo + Juliet new look Romeo loves Juliet. 1950s – girls on one side, boys on the other. We think of confinement, confinement, dance, music and love as escapes. The dance is physical, often joyful. the youth and vitality of the performers work wonders in this version, which does not forget that violence (audio and visual) can often be the only answer to a world made of prohibitions, restraints and submission, and that sometimes love unto death is the only one. the way to freedom. BB:
Romeo + Juliet, by Matthew Bourne, from March 9 to 28 at the Theater du Châtelet in Paris. chatelet.com:
Coronation, ballets and video
Evangeliia Kranioti.
Russian ballets arrive at the Philharmonie for an exclusive concert, the result of a collaboration with the Aix-en-Provence Festival. This is carte blanche given to the creators of three videos that revisit Stravinsky’s legendary ballets: Fire bird By Rebecca Zlotowski Petruchka (in its 1947 version) Bertrand Mandico, et The rite of spring By Evangelia Cranioti. The latter, born in Athens in 1979, takes the scandalous work of 1913, a symbol of modernity, to offer an ecofeminist reading that transforms this pagan ritual into a warning against female domination and oppression. L.K.
Ballets Russes, concert with video, February 28 and 29 at the Paris Philharmonic. philharmoniedeparis.fr:
The art of escape
Press:
This Science Po graduate has been leading humanitarian missions in warring countries for twenty years, and he offers us an impressive first novel, inhabited by several characters who escape in one way or another. Lauren leaves Kansas after a fatal shooting, Aaron is burdened by his mobster father’s legacy, Emily loses her speech after a translation error at the United Nations… Precise and dense writing to weave a unique and fascinating portrait of a generation struggling to weave. a world turned upside down. IP:
The runawaysRenaud Rodier, Éditions Anne Carrière, 400 p., €23.
Source: Le Figaro
