La Minute du spectateur : Le Ballet du Capitole
2020 - Director : Plasson, Fabien
Choreographer(s) : Belarbi, Kader (France) Noureev, Rudolf (Russian Federation)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la danse , La minute du spectateur
Video producer : Maison de la Danse de Lyon
La Minute du spectateur : Le Ballet du Capitole
2020 - Director : Plasson, Fabien
Choreographer(s) : Belarbi, Kader (France) Noureev, Rudolf (Russian Federation)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la danse , La minute du spectateur
Video producer : Maison de la Danse de Lyon
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Belarbi, Kader
Renowned dancer and choreographer, Kader Belarbi is characterized by an endless curiosity and a renewed appetite for dancing adventures.
After studying choreography at the School Dance of the Paris Opera, he joined the ballet corps in 1980, where he climbed the stage with brilliance. In 1989, he was named Star with the role of "The Bluebird" in Rudolf Nureyev's "Sleeping Beauty". Nineteen years later, he made his official farewells at the Ballet de l'Opéra in Paris with "Signs" by Carolyn Carlson.
Open to all styles, he danced the numerous ballets of the repertory of the Paris Opera and remains a familiar of the contemporary dance. He has been associated with numerous world premieres by major choreographers and aesthetics such as Roland Petit, Rudolf Noureev, John Neumeier, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Maurice Béjart, Maguy Marin, Dominique Bagouet, Saburo Teshigawara, Jirí Kylián, William Forsythe, Mats Ek and Pina Bausch.
Also a choreographer, Kader Belarbi is the author of forty ballets: "Giselle and Willy" (1991), "Salle des pas perdus" (1997), "Les Saltimbanques" (1998), "Hurlevent" (2002) for the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris , "Les Épousés" (2004), "La Bête et la Belle" (2005) for the Grands Ballets Canadiens, "Entrelacs" for the National Ballet of China, "The Wonderful Mandarin" for the Ballet of the Grand Théâtre de Genève Musicians and dancers of the Paris Opera (2008), a lunar Pierrot accompanied by a dancer and a guitarist (2011) ...
During two seasons (2009-2010 and 2010-2011), he is an associate artist at La Comète, a national stage in Châlons-en-Champagne (France) and performs on tour with a group of dancers.
For the Capitole Ballet (Toulouse, France), which he directs since August 1, 2012, he creates "Liens de table" and "À nos Amours" (2010), "La Reine morte" (2011), "Étranges Voisins" (2012), "Entrelacs", "The Corsair", "Beauty and the Beast" (2013), "Bach-Suite III" (2014), "Giselle" (2015) and "Mur-Mur" (2016).
Throughout the seasons, Kader Belarbi allows the dancers to seize the diversity of choreographic styles in order to nourish their dance.
He is an Officer of Arts and Letters (2006), Knight of the Legion of Honor (2008) and an Officer in the National Order of Merit (2016).
Source: Theatre du Capitole 's website (Toulouse, France)
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Noureev, Rudolf
Ballet dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev was born, the youngest child and only son to a peasant family of Tatar heritage, on March 17, 1938, in Irkutsk, Russia. When Germany invaded the U.S.S.R., Rudolf and his family evacuated from Moscow to Ufa, Bashkir. Although the family lived in poverty there, Rudolf's mother, Farida, managed to buy a single ticket and sneak her children into the opera. At his first glimpse of ballerina Zaituna Nazretdinova, Rudolf knew he wanted to become a dancer.
At the age of 11, Nureyev started ballet classes, studying with Anna Udeltsova. A year and a half later, began training with Elena Vaitovich.
Nureyev started dancing professionally as an extra at the local opera when he was 15. From there he landed a job with the corps de ballet and toured with them in Moscow.
When Nureyev turned 17, he was accepted into the Leningrad Ballet School, where Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin became his teacher. When he graduated, Nureyev accepted a soloist contract with the Kirov Ballet in St. Petersburg and debuted opposite Natalia Dudinskaya. Over the next few years, he danced an additional 15 major roles in productions at the Kirov Theater, including The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake.
In 1961, Nureyev and the Kirov company toured in Paris. That year, he also made his London debut at ballerina Margot Fonteyn's yearly gala for the Royal Academy of Dancing. As a result, Nureyev was invited to dance with Fonteyn during the following year's gala. Their chemistry as a dance team would captivate audiences and garner large fees for years to come, although the partnership was never exclusive. Nureyev's gallery performance was also the start of his long-lasting relationship with the Royal Ballet, his home base up until the mid-1970s.
Nureyev took his first stab at choreography in 1964 with revised versions of Raymonda and Swan Lake. He would go on to re-choreograph four more ballets during his career.
In 1977 Nureyev was considered for the position of director at the Royal Ballet. At the time, he refused because he wanted to continue his dancing career. Six years later, he accepted the job as ballet director for the Paris Opera, which permitted him to continue dancing six months out of the year. During this time, Nureyev began to take on roles in films such as Valentino and Exposed.
In the years preceding his death, Nureyev expanded his repertoire to include orchestral conducting. He died of AIDS on January 6, 1993, in Paris.
Source : Biographies websites
More information : http://www.noureev.org/
Plasson, Fabien
Born in 1977, Fabien Plasson is a video director specialized in the field of performing arts (dance , music, etc).
During his studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (joined in 1995) Fabien discovered video art. He was trained by various video artists (Joel Bartoloméo Pascal Nottoli , Eric Duyckaerts , etc).
He first experimented with the creation of installations and cinematic objects.
From 2001 to 2011, he was in charge of Ginger & Fred video Bar’s programming at La Maison de la Danse in Lyon. He discovered the choreographic field and the importance of this medium in the dissemination, mediation and pedagogical approach to dance alongside Charles Picq, who was a brilliant video director and the director of the video department at that time.
Today, Fabien Plasson is the video director at La Maison de la Danse and in charge of the video section of Numeridanse.tv, an online international video library, and continues his creative activities, making videos of concerts, performances and also creating video sets for live performances.
Sources: Maison de la Danse ; Fabien Plasson website
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Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse
Artistic direction: Kader Belarbi
For over two centuries, the Ballet du Capitole has been dedicated to the lyric arts: it dances the operatic dance at the Théâtre du Capitole. It wasn’t until 1949 that there would be evenings dedicated solely to dance, at the initiative of Louis Orlandi, Ballet Master and choreographer. The Ballet du Capitole had finally become a ballet company in the fullest sense of the term. It then enjoyed great success with its successive dance directors.
In August 2012, Kader Belarbi, star dancer and choreographer, was offered the direction of dance at the Théâtre du Capitole. A new page was then turned for the Ballet du Capitole. Its new director and creator was attached to the tradition of the great classical and neo-classical repertoire, but still opened the Ballet to the diversity of aesthetics and gave contemporary creation a central role.
Kader Belarbi’s artistic project and ambition are to give the Ballet du Capitole a broad classical repertoire and to open the company up by diversifying its repertoires, as well as by encouraging the expansion of its audience, developing a regional presence and expanding internationally.
Tradition and modernity are at the heart of the Ballet du Capitole. With 35 dancers from 14 different countries, it offers, season to season, dynamic ballet in harmony with its time, open to all.
Source: Théâtre du Capitole 's website
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