(c) Cameron Sparling Crystal Pite, Medhi Walerski & Johan Inger: Théâtre des Champs‐Elysées
Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées — Main Hall
About the Event
Three French premieres from Crystal Pite, Medhi Walerski and Johan Inger with the dancers of Ballet BC from Vancouver.
Ballet BC (BC for British Columbia) is based in Vancouver and over the course of almost thirty years has built up an exciting repertoire combining classical sophistication with bold collaborations featuring different strands of contemporary dance. This is apparent in this triptych presented in Paris combining three programmes which offer a perfect illustration of the company’s artistic preferences. Crystal Pite, who needs no introduction, will once again demonstrate the power of her choreographic idiom with her new piece Frontier, in which movement wells up from the depth of the dancers’ bodies. It will be followed by Silent Tides, a work for two performers by the current director of the company, Medhi Walerski, in which sultry gestures and poetry unfold in a moment of suspended time. Lastly, Swedish choreographer Johan Inger, who is also no stranger to Parisian audiences, will present the French premiere of Passing, an epic journey through a landscape of human emotion in which meaning and the senses mingle in a lucid reflection of the human condition.
Cast / Production
FRONTIER French Premiere
Crystal Pite | choreography
Owen Belton, Eric Whitacre | music
Jay Gower Taylor | stage design
Nancy Bryant, Kate Burrows | costumes
Tom Visser | lights
SILENT TIDES French Premiere
Medhi Walerski | choreography, set design, costumes
Adrien Cronet | music
Pierre Pontvianne, Lisette van der Linden | lights
PASSING French Premiere, created by Ballet BC in May 2023
Johan Inger | choreography, stage design
Erik Enocksson, Louis T. Hardin, Amos Ben‐Tal | music
Linda Chow | costumes
Alan Brodie | lights
Recorded music
Address
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 15, Avenue Montaigne, Paris, France — Google Maps
