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Call for dancers for opera production with Les Arts Florissants
Call for dancers for opera production with Les Arts Florissant
French choreographer Martin Chaix seeks two female-identifying and two male-identifying dancers for the 12th edition of Le Jardin des Voix, an opera academy founded by William Christie and based in Thiré, France.
Deadline | 15th of April 2025
My year 2024
This year is coming to an end, and as such, comes an irrepressible need to reflect on it—evidenced by the countless commemorative posts and playlists flourishing here and there. Overall, it has been a very good year, tiresome but thrilling, artistically and humanly rich.
Here is why
Statement
Statement
On November 7th and 8th 2023, the Bolshoi Ballet will perform my ballet "Silentium", originally created in 2020.
The performance rights for this work have expired as of September 2023, and the theater has approached me to renew them for another three years. However, my team and I have decided we cannot accept their offer in good conscience.
Both the director of the Theater and the ballet company have decided to perform it anyway, putting myself and my team in a very uncomfortable situation vis-a-vis the dancers and our peers, and I deeply regret it.