Cast
NEW YEAR'S EVENING
Creation 2018
Ballet for 13 dancers
Angelin Preljocaj Choregraphy
Maurice Ravel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Iannis Xenakis, Dimitri Chostakovitch, Daft Punk, Philip Glass, 79D Music
Igor Chapurin Costumes
Eric Soyer Lights
Cécile Médour Assistant rehearsals
Dany Lévêque Choreography specialist
Presentation
For Angelin Preljocaj, dance plays with gravity, weight, and earth’s pull: it glues the dancer to the ground, he must free himself by jumping, but it has no action on the links woven between bodies. The choreographer invites us to a subtle and powerful love fight with gravity, deploying all the palette of movements of limbs, heads and bodies, to conquer everything that glues them to the dance carpet and pulls them back as soon as they evade it. A voluptuous state reached a thousand times, with summits, peaks, highs, and jumps where dancers take off and conquer space as they search for non-gravity.
"Gravitation is one of the four fundamental forces which govern the universe. It designates the attraction of two masses. It is invisible, impalpable, immanent and still it creates gravity. For years, the notions of weight, space, speed and mass have intuitively travelled through my research in choreography. Everyday work with the dancers brings me to experimenting with forms whose fundamental components revolve around this question, which is both abstract and terribly concrete. In line with my principle of alternation between pure research pieces and more narrative ballets, I’m waiting for the question of gravity to open up new writing possibilities."
- Angelin Preljocaj -
EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE FOR NEW YEAR'S EVENING
At the end of the show you will be able to reach the King's State Apartments. The evening will end with a fireworks display to admire from the Hall of Mirrors.
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Ballet Preljocaj: Gravity © Jean-Claude Carbonne
Ballet Preljocaj: Gravity © Jean-Claude Carbonne
Ballet Preljocaj: Gravity © Jean-Claude Carbonne
Ballet Preljocaj: Gravity © Jean-Claude Carbonne
Ballet Preljocaj: Gravity © Jean-Claude Carbonne
Ballet Preljocaj: Gravity © Jean-Claude Carbonne
Ballet Preljocaj: Gravity © Jean-Claude Carbonne
Ballet Preljocaj: Gravity © Jean-Claude Carbonne
Ballet Preljocaj: Gravity © Jean-Claude Carbonne
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PRESTIGE CATEGORY: Excellent seats with complimentary glass of champagne and programme.
PRESTIGE VIP CATEGORY: Best seats in house with complimentary glass of champagne and programme.
Boxes 13 and 14 (Corbeille, Balcon Royal and Colonnade): depending on the show and the setting, seats may have limited visibility on ranks 2, 3 and 4.
REDUCED RATE applicable to under 26s, Chateau de Versailles Spectacles card holders and groups of more than 10 people (excluding special company offer).
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