Paris
theartsdesk in Paris: Surrealist BluesSunday, 25 October 2009
I've been having rather a surreal autumn here in Paris. First, I was lucky enough to catch the last day of Une semaine de bonté at the Musée d'Orsay, where the original collages were on display in five colour-coded chambers. For those not in the... Read more... |
Spiral, Series 2, BBC FourFriday, 18 September 2009
Though our French cousins like to boast of their superiority to the Anglo-Saxons in every sphere of endeavour, the Paris-based police dama Spiral, returning after a three-year absence, suggests that the Cartesian paradise across the Channel is under... Read more... |
Sylvie Guillem, Ballerina in EvolutionWednesday, 09 September 2009
The phenomenal French ballerina Sylvie Guillem (b. 1965) has always been a modern woman, for all her classical ballerina dress. She joined the Royal Ballet in 1989 from Nureyev's Paris Opera Ballet, on terms of strictest independence, hardly saying... Read more... |
Eonnagata, Sylvie Guillem/ Robert LePage/ Russell Maliphant, Sadler’s WellsSaturday, 28 February 2009
With five first-magnitude stars in it you're expecting at least a five-star show from Eonnagata, the collaboration between ballerina Sylvie Guillem, theatre director Robert Lepage, choreographer Russell Maliphant, designer Alexander McQueen and... Read more... |
Zizi Jeanmaire: Not Giselle but CarmenMonday, 21 September 1998
SHE was the most chic Sixties doll that ever walked the streets, and all Britain enumerated her qualities when Peter Sarstedt's haunting pop-song hit the charts in 1969. "You talk like Marlene Dietrich, And you dance like Zizi Jeanmaire. Your... Read more... |
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