In the repertoire of the Ballet of the Paris Opera since 2017, Hans Van Manen's Trois Gnossiennes returns to the Palais Garnier. On stage, a pas de trois brings together two dancers and pianist Elena Bonnay. For Octave she offers us the keys to interpreting Erik Satie's score. Being one with the dancers without betraying the composer and being one with the composer without betraying the dancers: that is the challenge she sets herself as she probes the mysteries of this meditative and hieratic work.  

Two ballets created by Sol León and Paul Lightfoot, resident choreographs at the Nederlands Dans Theater Company, enter the Paris Opera Ballet repertoire. The duo León/Lightfoot, whose choreographic language combines rapid-fire movements and fixed poses, has now created about fifty works. From erratic and dreamlike pictures in Sleight of Hand to spontaneous injunctions in Speak for Yourself, these works tend to reflect each person’s individuality and question the concept of alterity.