Body and Soul

Production de 2020 - Crystal Pite

• Music

  Owen Belton

• Choreography

  Crystal Pite

• Musiques additionnelles

  Frédéric Chopin

• Musiques additionnelles

  Teddy Geiger

• Voice

  Marina Hands

• Scenography

  Jay Gower Taylor

• Costume design

  Nancy Bryant

• Lighting design

  Tom Visser

Guided by a strange voice under the flickering light of a flush-fitting ceiling lamp, two men observe one another and then confront each other. This duo soon becomes a crowd, a swell, which comes alive to the rhythm of Chopin’s preludes. Crystal Pite’s second creation for the Paris Opera Ballet, Body and Soul serves up waves of words and gestures which form the material for a secret narrative. Through the movement of the dancers, the words of a woman never cease to manifest themselves, like a duet between body and soul. Exploring the theme of mourning and bereavement, the Canadian choreographer presents the conflicting urges and impulses that challenge the unity of each of us. In a mysterious twilight awash with sound effects, this dramatically powerful three-act ballet progresses, not without humour, towards an exuberant and stimulating finale.

Les Étoiles, les Premiers Danseurs et le Corps de Ballet de l’Opéra

Body and Soul

Production de 2020 - Crystal Pite

• Femmes

  Léonore Baulac

• Alice Renavand

• Marion Barbeau

• Héloïse Bourdon

• Hannah O'Neill

• Silvia Saint-Martin

• Hommes

  Hugo Marchand

• Marc Moreau