pherank

Hello: Yes, I try to follow what goes on at POB (and at San Francisco Ballet too, btw), but I don't happen to speak French.

So the video information is lost on me. It don't think a female étoile has choregraphed a work before (for POB). But I may be wrong aobut that.

Looks like the link above is garbled - here's a (hopefully) better one:

http://www.operadeparis.fr/en/saison_2012_2013/Ballets/gillot-cunningham/decouvrir/presentation/video

I was wondering if anyone had more background information on this -

Marie-Agnès Gillot is preparing her first choreographed piece for the POB (2013). There is video (in French) announcing this at:

operadeparis.fr/en/saison_2012¬_2013/Ballets/gillot-cunningha¬m/detail/

She has done some short modern pieces for outside projects, but I believe this would be her first full length project for the POB. Note that Marie-Agnès Gillot was the first dancer in the history of the Paris Opera Ballet to be made an Etoile not at the end of a traditional ballet, but after a modern dance performance.

Frank