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Tout près des étoiles les danseurs de l'Opéra de Paris

Title: Tout près des étoiles [videorecording] : les danseurs de l'Opéra de Paris / presented by Little Bear and Gaïa Films ; a film by Nils Tavernier ; produced by Frédéric Bourboulon and Agathe Berman.
Publication: France : Little Bear/Gaïa Films, c2000 ; Brooklyn, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films [distributor]

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Additional Authors

Description

1 videocassette (97 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Documentary on the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris [Paris Opéra Ballet], filmed in 1999 over a period of three months. The film begins in April 1999 with the company's guest engagement in Japan, then moves back to Paris and the company's two performing venues, the Opéra Garnier and the Opéra Bastille. Various aspects of a dancer's life are explored against a background of classes, rehearsals, and performances. Topics include the dancers' love for their art despite the hard physical work it entails ; their rigorous training (illustrated by scenes of classes at the company's school in Nanterre) ; the artistic challenges offered by the company's varied repertory ; the dancers' co-existing sense of camaraderie and isolation ; the dichotomy between growing artistic maturity and waning physical ability ; the prospect of retirement from performing. The documentary captures the farewell performance of étoile Elisabeth Platel, and her speech at the ensuing party.

Uniform Title

Doux mensonges (Choreographic work : Kylian)
Swan lake (Choreographic work : Nureyev)
Ninth symphony (Choreographic work : Béjart)

Alternative Title

Étoiles dancers of the Paris Opéra Ballet.
Dancers of the Paris Opéra Ballet
Étoiles the Paris Opéra Ballet Company.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Documentaries and factual films and programs.
Motion pictures.
Features.
Video.

Note

Letterbox format.
Title on wrapper and cassette label: Étoiles: dancers of the Paris Opéra Ballet. Screened at the Dance on Camera Festival 2002 in New York City, and listed in its program as: Dancers of the Paris Opéra Ballet.

Credits (note)

Camera, Dominique Le Rigoleur, Nils Tavernier ; [still] photography, Vincent Tessier ; editing, Florence Ricard ; produced with the participation of Canal+ and the Centre National de la Cinématographie.

Performer (note)

Interviewees: Marie-Agnès Gillot, Manuel Legris, Brigitte Lefèvre, Wilfried Romoli, Jiri Kylian, Claude Bessy, Ghislaine Thesmar, Noëlla Pontois, Miteki Kudo, Patrice Bart, Agnes Letestu, Aurélie Dupont, Carole Arbo, Jose Martinez, Maurice Béjart, Elisabeth Platel, and other members of the artistic, pedagogic and administrative staff of the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris and its school. Many interviewees are not identified on frame.
Also appearing: Cyril Atanassoff, Lionel Delanoë, Céline Talon, Nicolas Le Riche, Viviane Descoutures, others.

Language (note)

In French with English subtitles.

Contents

Dance excerpts: Orison / choreography, Pierre Darde ; music, Costin Miereanu -- Doux mensonges (Sweet lies) / choreography, Jiri Kylian ; music, Carlo Gesualdo, Claudio Monteverdi, madrigals, Georgian chant -- Apollon musagète [Apollo] / choreography, George Balanchine ; music, Igor Stravinsky -- Swan lake / choreography, Rudolf Nureyev ; music, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky -- La sylphide / choreography, Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni ; music, Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer -- La IXème symphonie [Ninth symphony] / choreography, Maurice Béjart ; music, Ludwig van Beethoven -- Solisoli / choreography, Gilles Baron ; music, Henry Purcell (Dido and Aeneas).

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5946

OCLC

NYPY02-F500

Title

Tout près des étoiles [videorecording] : les danseurs de l'Opéra de Paris / presented by Little Bear and Gaïa Films ; a film by Nils Tavernier ; produced by Frédéric Bourboulon and Agathe Berman.

Imprint

France : Little Bear/Gaïa Films, c2000 ; Brooklyn, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films [distributor]

Country of Producing Entity

France.

Credits

Camera, Dominique Le Rigoleur, Nils Tavernier ; [still] photography, Vincent Tessier ; editing, Florence Ricard ; produced with the participation of Canal+ and the Centre National de la Cinématographie.

Performer

Interviewees: Marie-Agnès Gillot, Manuel Legris, Brigitte Lefèvre, Wilfried Romoli, Jiri Kylian, Claude Bessy, Ghislaine Thesmar, Noëlla Pontois, Miteki Kudo, Patrice Bart, Agnes Letestu, Aurélie Dupont, Carole Arbo, Jose Martinez, Maurice Béjart, Elisabeth Platel, and other members of the artistic, pedagogic and administrative staff of the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris and its school. Many interviewees are not identified on frame.

Also appearing: Cyril Atanassoff, Lionel Delanoë, Céline Talon, Nicolas Le Riche, Viviane Descoutures, others.

Language

In French with English subtitles.

Added Author

Gillot, Marie-Agnès. Interviewee

Legris, Manuel. Interviewee

Lefèvre, Brigitte. Interviewee

Romoli, Wilfried. Interviewee

Kylian, Jiri, 1947- choreographer. Interviewee

Bessy, Claude. Interviewee

Thesmar, Ghislaine. Interviewee

Pontois, Noëlla, 1943- Interviewee

Kudo, Miteki. Interviewee

Bart, Patrice. Interviewee

Letestu, Agnès. Interviewee

Dupont, Aurélie. Interviewee

Arbo, Carole. Interviewee

Martínez, José, 1969- Interviewee

Béjart, Maurice, choreographer. Interviewee

Platel, Elisabeth, dancer. Interviewee

Atanassoff, Cyril.

Delanoë, Lionel.

Talon, Céline.

Le Riche, Nicolas.

Descoutures, Viviane.

Tavernier, Nils.

Bourboulon, Frédéric. Producer

Darde, Pierre.

Balanchine, George, choreographer.

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993, choreographer.

Lacotte, Pierre, 1932- choreographer.

Baron, Gilles, choreographer.

Opéra de Paris. Ballet.

Opéra de Paris. Ecole de danse.

Little Bear Production.

Gaia Films.

Studio Canal.

Centre national de la cinématographie (France)

First Run/Icarus Films.

Balanchine, George. Apollo

Added Title

Doux mensonges (Choreographic work : Kylian)

Swan lake (Choreographic work : Nureyev)

Ninth symphony (Choreographic work : Béjart)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5946

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