Marius Petipa, le maître français du ballet russe

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Marius Petipa, le maître français du ballet russe (2018)

Directed by Denis Sneguirev

Documentary · 52m

When he arrives in Saint Petersburg, at the age of 29, Marius Petipa is just an obscure dancer who fled western Europe to escape his debts. He is far from imagining that his engagement in the troupe of the Russian Imperial Ballet, then rather mediocre, will reveal him, forty years later, as one of the greatest choreographers in the history of dance. It is within the Bolshoi Kamenny theaters, then Mariinsky, in a still provincial capital where three productions a year are enough to satisfy an undemanding audience, that this native of Marseille will invent a new art of ballet, over the course of sixty of creations, between 1862 (La fille du pharaon) and 1895 (Le lac des cygnes).

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Cast

Jean-Christophe Brétignière self
F
François Devienne self
S
Stephan Di Bernardo self Xavier Legrand self Rudolf Nureyev self Tiler Peck self Alexei Ratmansky self
P
Polina Semionova self
R
Raphaëlle Spagnolli self
C
Cassandra Trenary self Hélène Vauquois self

Crew

Director
Denis Sneguirev
Writer
Denis Sneguirev
Director of Photography
Ivan Finogeev, Mathias Rozpendowski, Nikita Tchartorijski, Philippe Chevallier
Editor
Marie Marchand

Details

Release date
2018-12-23
Runtime
52m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
French
Countries
France
Production
ARTE, Les Poissons Volants