An interview with the Chinese choreographer Xie Xin, whose Horizon, inspired by nature and playing with illusions, is her first creation for the Paris Opera's dancers.

Xie Xin, the first female Chinese choreographer to be invited to the Opéra national de Paris, creates Horizon for the Ballet's dancers to mark the opening of the season. Yvon Demol, Coryphée in the Corps de Ballet, explains the particular choreographic language that gives shape to this ode to nature.

Circular movements and gestural lines evoke in turn the cycle of day and night, and the mountain ridge line. Yvon Demol discusses the breathing technique transmitted by Xie Xin in the studio, and more broadly the choreographic tools that enrich each dancer's palette during creative periods.

Hip-hop dance star Marion Motin creates The Last Call, her first work for the Paris Opera Ballet. Caroline Osmont, Sujet in the Corps de Ballet, introduces the characters and the story told by this ballet, in which a phone call turns a man's life upside down.

Structured in five tableaux that evoke the five stages of grief, The Last Call offers a colorful, phantasmagorical universe. Caroline Osmont explains the earthy, electric side of Marion Motin's language and the impulsive way she works in the studio.

In The Last Call, her first work for the Paris Opera Ballet, Marion Motin tells the story of a phone call that upends a man's life. Fascinated by the distortion of space and time, the choreography plunges the audience into a supernatural dimension.