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| Eleonora Abbagnato |
The appointment
Three atmospheres for three ballets where the incursion of the great distances to field one way or another, as well as the mark of an era, the scene of the beholder. However, placed end to end, it is easy to forget what made Rendezvous and Wolf , despite their old-fashioned charm, and what has propelled The Young Man and Death in pantheon of modern art.
ballets chosen for this season opener was rather odes to male dance, but this evening devoted to Roland Petit was an opportunity on stage, three dancers with multiple resources missing most of last season for various reasons, Eleonora Abbagnato, Laetitia Pujol and Isabelle Ciaravola.
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| Yann Saiz |
In Go you confrontation between scenography stripped of decor cleverly tinted era World War II and the supernatural, fate played by Michael Denard, creates a slightly unstable atmosphere between materialism and effect nostalgic song street, played by Pascal Aubin, tango infernal end, and more abstract passages where a young man and reckless dancing hunchback.
Rest Following this rather short skits strung somewhat linearly to draw a clear story that's not so easy to restore in the choreography lacks a driving force which is embodied in the dance, instead of based on the charisma of a dancer, not always exist. Yet if to enter the ballet, it looks forward final pas de deux in which the most beautiful girl in the world will liquidate the young man, because the young man was able to take an interest in history, especially Nicolas Le Riche and a dazzling Yann Saiz, substituting extravagance which slip perfectly into this role where the casualness is the watchword until the final fatal blow.
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| Alice Renavand - Yann Saiz |
In this pas de deux that is the only moment of dancing a little support from the ballet, we found the leg of Roland small, but the dancer even as charismatic Isabelle Ciaravola or voluptuous as Eleonora Abbagnato, constrained by its high heels, can not forget the music of Vladimir Kosma and superficiality of the choreography. It's more in attitude and looks then found in dancers, this binder hypnotic characteristic of Roland Petit.
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| Isabelle Ciaravola - Nicolas Le Riche |
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| Stéphane Bullion |
Wolf enters the fantasy world more explicitly. Again, this bill in the delicate pas de deux of the heroes that we find the enchantment of the ballet and the duo Stephane Bullion / Emilie Cozette invites reverie. He opposes the excesses of the gypsy too narcissistic young man and even if the latter, by contrast, does make the terrible condition of the wolf that more engrossing. The animal trapped victim and the man lies in contact with the nice, gentle and tamed by her awakening to love with a touching grace. The couple in an isolated wave in the gentle poetic and dream until the sad reality catches up. For even in fairy tales, happiness and extra normative irritates those around condemns the impudence of the beast to have seduced the girl.
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| Stéphane Bullion - Ludmila Pagliero |
The wonder of the relationship between the wolf and the girl, supported by a very musical director, quasi-narrative in itself, Henri Dutilleux, manages to keep the viewer's interest in his few meanders, although the scope of this work is rather limited as can be seen when the performers n 'come not to slip into history. Found in Benjamin Pech and Laetitia Pujol, a reading too linear and too few subtle nature of the fantastic tale they get closer to the grotesque as to poetry. The naive charm of the ballet requires a complex distribution tactful and subtle, a belief in magic history, because the wolf is not a beast Empowered caricature, but rather an animal miserably reduced to captivity will find hope for humanity in the beauty.
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| Stéphane Bullion - Emilie Cozette |
Emilie Cozette that is with the magic of the tale is most apparent. It is a case here to express both an ingenuity and aplomb that reveals sincere animal lover and in turn to defend his wolf mistreated. Stéphane Bullion walks his melancholy look and poetic in its make-up draws a disturbing profile, making it not the same any unnecessary gesture moved to impose its own animal. He carries in his eyes, all the misery of his condition.
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| Stéphane Bullion - Ludmila Pagliero |
The chances of injury have been sharing the same wolf Emilie Cozette and Ludmila Pagliero. Emilie Cozette but then enters the narrative with a natural sweetness that makes her wolf lover and gently subjected Ludmila Pagliero inserts a theatricality very touching that makes it more wild and restless. Death is even more pathetic and the remains of the wolf, lying lonely on stage with calls for reflection on disillusionment intolerance.
The young man and death
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| Stéphane Bullion |
The Young Man and Death is a ballet where personality of the dancer takes the emotions in one direction or another. This year, three of them had caught the attention Roland Petit, Jeremiah Bélingard and his unfailing energy, Stéphane Bullion and sensuality desperate, Nicolas Le Riche and acute cerebral. Three young men who have developed various so brilliantly cope with Alice Renavand for the first and Eleonora Abbagnato for the other two, a force for Jeremiah Bélingard tense, tinged with fragility Stéphane Bullion or full of inevitability to Nicolas Le Riche. ;
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| Eleonora Abbagnato - Stéphane Bullion |
The young man Jeremiah Bélingard is on the brink of madness and everything about him is flush with the physical violence increased allocation from the beginning, is expected to overflow at any moment to the extreme as his condition seems marked by movement very tense. There is no possible way out of his confrontation with the girl and death. The conduct of its one-way monolithic character is spectacular with the physical prowess he displays, perhaps sometimes at the expense of human touch that would no longer enter the spectator in his game but has however the virtue of leave it breathless. Jeremiah Bélingard removes the technical difficulties as a tool to bully and refuses to even dialogue with Alice Renavand, even more brutally cruel to him. Their performances are black and hopeless, a rare intensity.
Conversely, Stéphane Bullion and Nicolas Le Riche use more technical moments of the choreography to convey nuances in their characters, frailty or outbursts of anger in certain moments almost slow motion with jumps that build inner tension and their complex character. They draw a young man who eats over the last fifteen minutes of the ballet demonstrations physical but also their interactions with their partner.
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| Eleonora Abbagnato - Stéphane Bullion |
Nicolas Le Riche is even more than Jeremiah Bélingard, very sexual, while Stéphane Bullion plays of sometimes exacerbated sensuality that installs in the first part of melancholia. He may be younger man than his two colleagues more mature, arose from printing selected character appears out of adolescence. The way he receives with candor Eleonora's favor Abbagnato seems to make him forget for a moment his despair, as if unable to believe their story was finished, so that every moment made by Jeremy and Nicolas Le Riche Bélingard seem to behave as if nothing 'was lost, or at least indicate they would not relinquish.
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| Eleonora Abbagnato - Stéphane Bullion |
Thus, the explosion of pain after the jump of the angel is even more dramatic for Stéphane Bullion which seems then become aware of a force that destroys him perhaps more than it serves. The richness of his interpretation is also in the various nuances of his look and its extreme fragility, this crystal clear finish in a giant body over Eleonora Abbagnato while unrelenting darkness. Stéphane Bullion shuddered at every moment and waves seem to go on his body. More than his interpretation that constantly smells drama, Stephane Bullion puts his soul bare in ways wonderfully scary.
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| Eleonora Abbagnato - Nicolas The Rich |
Nicolas Le Riche tweaks her character over the years, a young man who matures with him, but inexorably, to whom he leaves freedoms depending on the day while focusing on this very reflective interiority. Here we go beyond the technical mastery and understanding of the scene, Nicolas Le Riche created in harmony with his feelings and accept variations of a young man always tortured.
Stéphane Bullion and Nicolas Le Riche found in Eleonora Abbagnato an exceptional performer. Hyper sensual Stéphane Bullion which it responds perfectly to the game of confidence with a fun perverted, it is relentless with Nicolas Le Riche, stronger in his control. The way he abhorred by anyone's eyes or display of smiles or mysterious predator in its own moments of pleasure, sexual or otherwise, is absolutely stunning. Eleonora Abbagnato signs its comeback in Paris with the sublime.
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| Eleonora Abbagnato - Stéphane Bullion |
