The camera tailed them around the building . Juan Gil and Simone Damberg Würtz in Rambert’s Draw From Within. Photograph: Camilla Greenwell
The first time I cried watching someone dance in their living room was in April last year. A few weeks into the first lockdown, unnerved by sudden confinement, there was ballerina Céline Gittens on my laptop screen, bourréeing past a pot plant. Then in a different living room, cellist António Novais drawing out a Saint-Saëns melody, and in another house, pianist Jonathan Higgins, all deeply engrossed in this re-creation of The Dying Swan, music crossing the divide.
Crystal Pite’s Body And Soul is coming to Canadian screens
Crystal Pite’s Body And Soul is coming to Canadian screens
The Canadian choreographer worked with the Paris Opera Ballet on an ambitious feature film that will debut on February 17 By Charlie Smith
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Vancouver choreographer Crystal Pite admits to feeling preshow jitters in advance of the Canadian film premiere of one of her more ambitious choreographic works.
The Kidd Pivot founder realizes that this anxiety is a bit bizarre, given that the Paris Opera Ballet debuted Body And Soul in the fall of 2019 at Palais Garnier to wild rounds of applause. The filmed version is forever immune to gaffes.