Paris Opera dancers smoke their dance class in public
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Paris. Palace garnish. 16-V-2022. Public course. Teacher: Andrey Klemm. With the stars and dancers of the Paris Opera ballet corps
For the first time, the public was invited to the Palais Garnier to see the Paris Opera Ballet company take its daily course.
Many other large companies offer this opportunity to enter the daily life of dancers. And the room is full to attend this open course. The performance is free, and it is enough to have been among the first to register to be able to afford a place in the orchestra. It is with pleasure that we recognize familiar faces: the stars Germain Louvet, Léonore Baulac (with her pretty round belly), Myriam Ould-Braham, Alice Renavand, Paul Marque, the first dancers Hannah O’Neill and Simon Le Borgne, but also rising figures from the corps de ballet like Bleuenn Battistoni, Camille Bon, Naïs Duboscq.
The course is given by Professor Andrey Klemm. The rhythm is intense, for an hour and a half the exercises follow one another almost without a break: warm-up at the bar, then exercises in the middle. The clearings, the adage, the pirouettes then follow one another, then the jumps, small battery then big jump. The course ends with specific exercises for the boys (turns in the air and carousel of jerks in particular) then for the girls, who have had time to put on their pointe shoes (whipped while turning). Great show in these final exercises where we see the personalities stand out and the practice of the scene make the difference. It is of course a pleasure to applaud the stars but it is very interesting to discover such and such a dancer from the corps de ballet, who we see dancing less often, and to admire his technique.
The Opera is engaged here in a beautiful initiative of cultural democratization, which makes it possible to understand the daily life of the dancer and to touch with the finger the work which hides behind the representations where everything must seem easy.
Photo credits: © Yonathan Kellerman_OnP
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Paris. Palace garnish. 16-V-2022. Public course. Teacher: Andrey Klemm. With the stars and dancers of the Paris Opera ballet corps
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