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Simple, the somewhat hollowed features, Benjamin Millepied presented on Wednesday 10 February, the new 2016-2017 season. With Stéphane Lissner, director of the National Opera of Paris, and Philippe Jordan, musical director, he painted the panorama showing ballets, including two creations signed by him. One week to the day after his resignation announced on 4 February in a tweet first, and then at a special press conference.
The fairy tale of the French dancer best known to the International thanks to the film Black Swan , (2010) directed by Darren Aronofsky on the set of which he met his wife Natalie Portman took end sooner than expected. The charming Millepied, her energy and glamor capital have not been enough to get the lot of disagreements and blunders accumulated fifteen months. Ignorance of the home, lack of method, the impatient director, welcomed with open arms by the company, probably wanted to go too fast, too far. “Since the fall, Mr. Millepied became less and less credible with the company, and the situation quickly escalated says Erwan Le Roux, interpreter in the corps de ballet and CGT of the company. It did not seem concerned by all 154 dancers of the troupe. “ Millepied had distinguished a small group of about twenty young performers to work in priority with them. “Part of the company has gradually felt threatened illegitimate and , says …
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