Between the final touches to the costumes by ALAÏA with Pieter Mulier and the final rehearsals, two dancers from the Ballet, Héloïse Jocqueviel and Julien Guillemard, discuss the adjustments to the choreography a few days before the Première. Petteri Iivonen, first violin with the Paris Opera Orchestra, talks about Sibelius' score and how special it is being on stage during performances, so close to the dancers.  

For their first invitation to create a piece for the Paris Opera Ballet's dancers, choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber first stopped by at the Orsolina28 Art Foundation in Italy. In the rehearsal studio, they gave free rein to the ideas, images and sensations inspired by Sibelius' haunting music. Delving into the darkest layers of their own experience to bring out the light, they gather the material for their work with the Opera's Corps de Ballet.    

Both trained at the Batsheva Dance Company, under the direction of Ohad Naharin, choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber are being invited for the first time to the Paris Opera. After an initial work session in Italy, they began rehearsals at the Opéra Bastille with the Ballet's dancers. To discover the creative process, we look back in pictures on these first meetings and exchanges.  

As rehearsals continue in the Opéra Bastille rehearsal studios, dancers Marion Gautier de Charnacé, Caroline Osmont, Takeru Coste and Antonin Monié discuss the creative process with Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber. 

A dialogue is established between the highly personal universe and the material the choreographers supply and the improvisations from the Company's dancers. They evoke the poetry, force and vulnerability emerging from their exchanges and the path that gradually takes shape.