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Modern Dance Breaks Out in France |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: David Stevens |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1987 |
| Size: 1,327 Words, 8,029 Characters |
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Dance has a long history in France, or at least in Paris, going back to the allegorical court entrainments of the late sixteenth century and the founding in 1661 of the Academie Royale de Danse, the direct ancestor of today's Paris Opera Ballet. But there is nothing in French dance history to explain how the fragile seedling of modern dance, originally imported from the United States, grew and spread like a weed, transforming itself in the process into a hardy, homegrown phenomenon that, in the last five years, has become an export product.
Perhaps it all began with Merce Cunningham. In June 1964, Cunningham and his company began a long overseas tour with a run in a Paris theater, to surprising acclaim from both the public and the critics - and this at a time when Cunningham was stil...
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...e music of Francois Couperin and what seemed like a series of sadomasochistic rituals. The baroque richness of her theatrical vision is taking her closer to the mainstream of French dance and theater: She is already booked to do another work for the Lyons Opera Ballet, Brecht and Weill's Seven Deadly Sins, and to get her feet wet in opera by staging Verdi's Otello for the opera house in Nancy.
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