2024-02-14 14:49:16
Par Ariane Bavelier
Published 23 minutes ago, Updated 23 minutes ago
Le Boléro with Julien Favreau and other BBL dancers, in May 2023. Boléro© BBL – Gregory Batardon (Montreux, May 2023)
DECRYPTION – After the ouster of Gil Roman, guardian of the repertoire, Julien Favreau was appointed director of the company where he has danced for twenty years. Without experience as a ballet master, he will have to relaunch the master’s work.
Béjart’s Devil. The light in him burst from the darkness. She still lives there, which preserves intact the power of fascination of her work. This choreographer is not limited to musicality, gestures, an era, a curiosity. He wanted to work beyond good and evil. For his company, living in a clan, in the devotion of the master, on the lookout for his favors, his steps, his words which he had rare, and his navy blue gaze, which spread over the walls of the cities of the world to indicate his tours, it was sometimes sublime, often heavy. And the dancers changed a lot.
The history of the company continues in this contrasting mode. On February 2, the Lausanne town hall, which chairs the Fondation du Béjart Ballet Lausanne (BBL), made the decision to part ways with Gil Roman, deputy director of the company since 1993 and who logically took over as head of the company upon the death of the choreographer. in 2007. Three days later, on February 5, Julien Favreau, 46 years old and in the company…
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