Marius Petipa, le maître français du ballet russe
2018•52m•Released
Documentary
When he arrives in Saint Petersburg, at the age of 29, Marius Petipa is just an obscure dancer who fled western Europe to escape his debts. He is far from imagining that his engagement in the troupe of the Russian Imperial Ballet, then rather mediocre, will reveal him, forty years later, as one of the greatest choreographers in the history of dance. It is within the Bolshoi Kamenny theaters, then Mariinsky, in a still provincial capital where three productions a year are enough to satisfy an undemanding audience, that this native of Marseille will invent a new art of ballet, over the course of sixty of creations, between 1862 (La fille du pharaon) and 1895 (Le lac des cygnes).
Director
Denis Sneguirev
Writer
Denis Sneguirev
Languages
French
Studio
ARTE
Cast
Jean-Christophe Brétignière
self
François Devienne
self
Stephan Di Bernardo
self
Xavier Legrand
self
Rudolf Nureyev
self
Tiler Peck
self
Alexei Ratmansky
self
Polina Semionova
self
Raphaëlle Spagnolli
self
Cassandra Trenary
self
Hélène Vauquois
self
Production
Company
ARTE
Company
Les Poissons Volants
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