INVESTIGATION – The ballet delegates proposed to wipe off the map this highlight of the career of a dancer who is practiced nowhere else than in the Parisian company. A step that has been contested for a long time.
It growls and pulls in the Paris Opera Ballet. In question, the elimination of the competition for the internal promotion of ballet dancers, this annual event where each dancer of the company wishing to access the higher grade in the hierarchy of the corps de ballet performs a classical compulsory variation and a variation of their choice. The key to promotion is better salary and access to soloist roles only, from the first dancer class. The representatives of the ballet went to the management to request the pure and simple cancellation of the competition.
It’s very fashionable to question everything. The demand does not come from young people who are still all fired up but from those who have been banging against the walls of the company for some time. In the same vein, some dancers refused to participate in the last parade of the corps de ballet on the grounds that they find it retrograde, martial, too hierarchical. Or that these few steps on…
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