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IN THE NIGHT<\/strong>by Jerome RobbinsA travelling companion of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins is a leading figure of American neoclassicism. He considered the Paris Opera Ballet his second family after the New York City Ballet. Set to the lyrical backdrop of Chopin\u2019s Nocturnes, In the Night uses classical technique to create a moving narrative. Three couples experience three moments of love: discovery, fulfilment and confusion, against the backdrop of a starry night.<\/p>\n\n

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GRAND PAS CLASSIQUE<\/strong>by Victor GsovskyVictor Gsovsky wanted to offer the dancer \u00c9toile Yvette Chauvir\u00e9, then his pupil, a jewel of pure classicism. Created in 1949, Grand Pas classique displays a virtuoso and majestic technique to the sound of an extract from the opera Le Dieu et La Bayad\u00e8re by Daniel-Fran\u00e7ois-Esprit Auber. When the Opera dancers perform the Grand Pas Classique, they always pay homage to the woman who best embodied the French school.<\/p>\n\n

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LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT<\/strong>by Roland PetitTrained at the Paris Opera Ballet School, Roland Petit soon left the company to follow his own path as a choreographer and performer. Created in 1946, Le jeune homme et la mort is a disturbing duet based on a libretto by Jean Cocteau and music by Johann Sebastian Bach. In Le jeune homme et la mort, destiny takes the form of a woman in a yellow dress and black gloves who mocks her lover until pushing him to suicide.<\/p>\n\n

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LE PARC<\/strong>by Angelin Preljocaj<\/p>\n\n

In this piece conceived for the Ballet de l\u2019Op\u00e9ra National de Paris in 1994, Angelin Preljocaj manages to create a subtle balance between the classical breath of Mozart\u2019s music and the modernity of the choreographic language. The sets evoke the elegance and delicacy of French-style gardens and the costumes are inspired by those of the Age of Enlightenment. The dancers awaken to love, from the encounter to the games of seduction, from shyness to attraction, from resistance to the sweetness of abandonment in the flight of a sublime pas de deux.<\/p>\n\n

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RAYMONDA<\/strong>by Rudolf Nureyev<\/p>\n\n

Raymonda, created in 1898 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg to the scintillating score of Aleksandr Glazunov, was the last great narrative ballet by Marius Petipa. A true work of medieval fantasy, considered an encyclopaedia of classical ballet, this work stages the love story of the young Raymonda and the knight Jean de Brienne, set against the desires of the Saracen leader, Abderam. Long unknown outside Russia, the ballet was restaged several times by Rudolf Nureyev after his time in the West. The choreographer gave it the final touch in 1983, when he became the director of dance at the Paris Opera.<\/p>\n\n

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BALLET DE L\u2019OP\u00c9RA NATIONAL DE PARIS<\/strong>The Ballet de l\u2019Op\u00e9ra National de Paris is the cradle of classical dance. The principles and codes of choreographic technique, imported from Italy by Queen Catherine de\u2019 Medici in the 16th century, were patiently moulded and perfected in court ballets, then under the reign of Louis XIV. The Sun King founded the Acad\u00e9mie royale de Danse in 1661, the first French institution entrusted with establishing the rules of dance and how it should be taught. In 1669 he inaugurated the Acad\u00e9mie royale de Musique (the original name of the Paris Opera), which included the first company of professional dancers in Europe. Finally, when he established a dance school in 1713, initially intended for the company’s artists, the essential conditions for the continuity of a quality company were met.<\/p>\n\n

Since then, the Ballet de l\u2019Op\u00e9ra National de Paris has never stopped developing. From the 18th century onwards, French dancers and choreographers spread their art throughout Europe. Jean-Georges Noverre (in Germany, London and Vienna), August Bournonville (in Denmark), Charles-Louis Didelot, Jules Perrot, Arthur Saint-L\u00e9on and Marius Petipa (in Russia), as well as the Vigan\u00f2 and Taglioni families (in Italy) were the illustrious bearers of these exchanges. This research effort culminated in the 19th century with the creation of La Sylphide by Philippe Taglioni (1832), the first ballet in a \u2018white tutu\u2019, and Giselle by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot (1841), which marked the apogee of the Romantic period. Today the Ballet, whose direction will be entrusted to Jos\u00e9 Martinez in 2022, remains a centre of living art, alternating revivals and creations and programming the greatest choreographers: George Balanchine, Serge Lifar, Kenneth MacMillan, Roland Petit, Jerome Robbins, John Neumeier, John Cranko, Pina Bausch, Maurice B\u00e9jart, Carolyn Carlson, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyli\u00e1n, Ohad Naharin, Hofesh Shechter, Crystal Pite\u2026 In 2024 the Junior Ballet was created, with the aim of diversifying the profiles of the dancers, facilitating their professional integration, and strengthening the openness to the public through tours and mediation activities, while perpetuating the three-hundred-year-old know-how of the Paris Opera.<\/p>\n\n

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