Ballet Preljocaj
Swan lake
Choreography Angelin Preljocaj
Music Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski
Additional music 79D
20 July 2024 at 9 p.m. (rain date: 21 July)
Duration 1h50
Combining Tchaikovsky’s musical masterpiece with more contemporary arrangements as he likes to do, he takes possession of the myth of the swan-dancer. A work begun in 2018 with Ghost, in which he paid tribute to Marius Petipa, projecting himself into the choreographer’s imagination at the same moment as the idea of his Swan Lake occurred to him.
“Angelin Preljocaj gives a brilliant reinterpretation of Swan Lake’s greatest moments. His elegant and colorful writing is complemented by Éric Soyer’s dreamy lighting and Boris Labbé’s palingenesis scenography. (…) Tchaikovsky’s voluptuous score meets 79D’s contemporary electro, accompanying a creation where the choreographer finds a natural expression of movement. Dancers perform en pointe barefooted, laying their arms on their shoulders as swans folding their wings or flocking together when frightened, to form colonies of dead waterlilies on the stage.”
Art Press, November 9th 2020Video design Boris Labbé
Lighting Éric Soyer
Costumes design Igor Chapurin
Assistant to the artistic direction Youri Aharon Van den Bosch
Rehearsal assistant Cécile Médour
Choréologist Dany Lévêque
Dancers Lucile Boulay, Celian Bruni, Elliot Bussinet, Zoé Charpentier, Baptiste Coissieu, Leonardo Cremaschi, Mirea Delogu, Lucia Deville, Antoine Dubois, Clara Freschel, Isabel García López, Jack Gibbs, Mar Gómez Ballester, Naïse Hagneré, Verity Jacobsen, Jordan Kindell, Beatrice La Fata, Laurent Le Gall, Théa Martin, Florine Pegat Toquet, Agathe Peluso, Mireia Reyes Valenciano, Simon Ripert, Khevyn Sigismondi, Manuela Spera, Micol Taiana
Coproduction Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse, Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2021 / Maison de la Danse, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Festspielhaus St Pölten (Austria), Les Théâtres - Grand Théâtre de Provence, Théâtres de Compiègne
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