This has been a special season, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Theatres were closed for a very long time and we started performing again at the Palais Garnier only in May 2021. At first, the number of audience was limited. However, the theatre is now allowing its full capacity again. The Paris Opera Ballet started... Continue Reading →
After more than a year and a half, the curtains are up again at the Paris Opera ! We're performing Roland Petit's "Le Rendez-vous", "Carmen" and "Le Jeune homme et la Mort" in Palais Garnier, and Nureyev's "Romeo and Juliet" in Opera Bastille. In the past week, the South Korean dancer Sae Eun Park was... Continue Reading →
In the middle of the global pandemic, a Concours de Promotion (promotional contest) took place at the Paris Opera Ballet on 15th and 17th April 2021. Originally planned for November every year, the Concours 2020 was postponed due to the Coronavirus epidemic…… After a few months of lockdown, the dancers were not ready for this... Continue Reading →
In the past week, we performed twice the "Soirée Jeunes Danseurs" at Opera Garnier. Due to the current sanitary restrictions, the two performances took place with an almost-empty audience. The first show (Friday evening) was only open to 150 to 200 members of the Paris Opera. A new "lockdown" in Paris was announced just the... Continue Reading →
The theatres are still closed in France..... and in the near future, we don't see any way out. So we continue rehearsing in the studios. The "Soirée Jeunes Danseurs" evening in which I am supposed to perform in Bluebird Pas de deux and Brumachon's "Indomptés" is probably going to be cancelled or postponed, but we... Continue Reading →
What a totally unexpectedly intense week I had! We have been deprived of performances and our usual dancer routine for more than a year now and all of a sudden, we had quite an incredibly tough week preparing for the upcoming (or not...) "Soirée Jeunes Danseurs" at the Paris Opera Ballet. It is a program... Continue Reading →
During the past two weeks, the Paris Opera Ballet have been preparing for a "come-back" series of La Bayadère performances at Opéra Bastille. In French government's last press conference, Emmanuel Macron planned to reopen the cultural institutions including museums, cinemas, theatres and concert halls on 15th December. After almost an entire year without performing on... Continue Reading →
After almost 8 months of work and preparation, it is finally here! Yesterday, on 1st December, the entire film "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune", a collaboration with the pianist Alexandre Tharaud, was published on Warner Classics' YouTube Channel. Feeling excited to present this work, I am grateful for this opportunity and am curious to know... Continue Reading →
This second confinement in France is starting to show its effectiveness and since about a week, the numbers here are stable and began to go down. We now have around 20 000 confirmed cases daily (we hit as many as 80 000 cases per day a few weeks ago!) The shops, restaurants and bars who... Continue Reading →
https://www.facebook.com/harpersbazaarhk/videos/386933389219312 In March 2019, when Harper's BAZAAR HK's team was in Paris for the fashion week, they needed an interpreter (Cantonese-French) in order to carry out a random street interview about fashion, skincare and French lifestyle. I accepted the job and worked for the first time in my life as an interpreter! It was a... Continue Reading →
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