Paris Opera National Ballet set to thrill fans in Dubai

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Stars from the highly regarded Paris Opera National Ballet will be performing a montage of classical and modern Ballet in Dubai's Madinat Theatre .  See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:0012 soloist performers from the prestigious Opera Nationale de Paris led by Etoile dancers

00:20Ludmila Pagliaro and Karl Paquette are coming to Madinat Theatre in Dubai to perform a montage

00:26of popular classical and contemporary ballet shows.

00:29To be an Etoile it's hard because when you start you start from the corp of ballet and

00:36you have to make a competition each year inside of the company to grow in five different levels.

00:44So there is not a lot of contracts you know sometimes to be a first dancer you have only

00:52one contract and you have ten girls.

00:56The performances will take place on the 8th, 9th and 10th of January and are set to both

01:00transcend the audience and emphasize the technical and artistic abilities of the new generation

01:05of soloists who excel in both classical and modern choreographies.

01:09We have here in Dubai seven or eight spots for the first.

01:16We have Cinderella which is part of the classical ballet.

01:19We have Esmeralda which is a demonstration of the pure technique ballet.

01:23Aubert which was created for Paris Opera Ballet, for Yvette Chauviret which is a very

01:27institutive pas de deux.

01:31And then we have more contemporary pieces with Genius, with Caligula which shows also

01:37what we are able to do in Paris Opera.

01:42The contrast will be intense between the pure romantic style of La Sylphide and the modern

01:47style of the more contemporary pieces Caligula and Notre Dame.

01:52The excerpts from the two latter pieces have been exclusively created for Paris Opera Ballet

01:56and will demonstrate the union between French heritage style ballet and the more modern

02:00French style of ballet being performed today.

02:03I was never bored on stage.

02:05Always I discovered every year something new, new things, how to manage some things on stage

02:11and I was very lucky for that because I was maybe too stupid when I was young just to

02:16be impressed with technique and there is not just that on stage.

02:20I mean artistic is part of the technique, without technique you can't do anything on

02:25stage but you have to develop something more and that's the interesting part of ballet.

02:32This is sure to be a show that Dubai has never seen before and should help to further provide

02:36future generations of dancers in the region with the motivation to excel in the art of

02:40ballet.

02:41I can say that one of the things important on dance is to work a lot, to believe, to

02:53be open to meet people.

02:56I know that maybe one of the girls tomorrow night is going to be in the public and is

03:03going to see the performance and she's going to dream about being a ballerina.

03:11I mean sometimes it's hard, sometimes we have pain, sometimes we cry maybe because

03:16it's too hard but if behind you have something strong and leads you to the 42 years old to

03:25the end of the career then it's really a good moment to be a ballet dancer.

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