At the Palais Garnier, the evening planned around William Forsythe and Johan Inger disappoints.
There is something a little constrained about this season opening at the Paris Opera. Like a return to school where the students would sulk in their pleasure. The poster, however, really makes you want to hang up your slippers with a constellation of discoveries: that of My’Kal Stromile, from Rearray by Forsythe, new version of a short piece created for Sylvie Guillem and Nicolas Le Riche in London in 2011, reinvented for Roxane Stojanov, Takeru Coste and Loup Marcault-Derouard. As a finale, another discovery with the entry into the repertoire ofImpasseby Johan Inger. This choreographer, who worked at the Nederlands Dans Theater and the Cullberg Ballet, gave the Madrid Ballet a Carmen when José Martinez was the director. But he had never before worked with the Paris Opera Ballet.
The centerpiece of this evening, the cover of Blake Works. Its creation in 2016 at the Palais Garnier caused an incredible wave of enthusiasm. The miracle, this time, fails…
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