The Austrian princess and her fate are the subject of a new Vienna State ballet staged and performed at the royal court opera within the Chateau of Versailles.
"Passion can happen to us all be they young or old, fat or thin, pretty or plain," says Thierry Malandain about his experimental dance opera set to Hector Berlioz's dramatic symphony.
"Bausch has created something new and timeless on the myth of the grief-stricken musician who braved the darkness of the Underworld to rescue his young wife, dead from a snakebite on the day of her wedding," writes dance critic Patricia Boccadoro in Paris.
"Watching the last performance of the final programme of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Paris was not unlike witnessing the second death of Cunningham himself," writes dance critic Patricia Boccadoro.
Some considered Rudolf Nureyev’s version of Perrault’s fairy tale "a well-conceived muddle", others the legendary artist's tribute to Hollywood movies.
Replacing an injured Nicolas Le Riche, the Canadian-born Evan McKie of the Stuttgart Company took over the title role shortly before the opening performance.
Drawing on highlights from his previous films on Alicia Markova, Nina Vyroubova and Violette Verdy, film maker Dominique Delouche adds new footage of former Paris Opera étoile and Balanchine muse Ghislaine Thesmar.
The Paris Opera Ballet offers up their exquisitely light, yet deeply moving, production of Kaguyahime, Jiri Kylian’s retelling of the Japanese fable, "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter."
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