Cendrillon - Ballet de l’Opéra National de Lyon
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In 1985, the year in which Cinderella was performed in Lyon, Maguy Marin was a well-known name. She is one of the leading lights of the new wave of choreographers which has flooded France. Classically trained Maguy Marin joined Maurice Béjart’s Ballet du XXe siècle before breaking free and setting up her own company. For this Cinderella, she uses masked performers, hovering between the grotesque and the poetic in a rocking horse and toyshop set. The dancers, led by Cinderella, adopt a hesitant disjointed way of walking like children who have shot up too fast and are ill-at-ease in their adult bodies. In this life-size dolls’ house, based on an idea devised by her faithful colleague Montserrat Casanova, Maguy Marin displays the theatre of emotions and grudges: goodies and baddies rub shoulders and she points the finger at male domination. Her Cinderella is quite clearly a thoroughly modern woman.
Stage direction : Maguy MARIN
Lighting : John SPRADBERY
Additionnal music : Jean SCHWARTZ
Set & Costumes : Montserrat CASANOVA
Masks : Monique LUYTON
Choreography : Maguy MARIN
Access plan Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
How to get to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
- Ligne 9 Alma-Marceau, Ligne 1 Franklin-Roosevelt
- Ligne C Pont de l'Alma
- 42, 63, 72, 80, 92
- Alma-Georges V
- Station en face du Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
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