La Bayadère fails to storm the Opéra Bastille

By Jade Larine, 23 November 2015

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Reviewed at Opéra national de Paris: Opéra Bastille, Paris on 20 November 2015

La Bayadère (Rudolf Nureyev)

Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris

Fayçal Karoui, Conductor

Ezio Frigerio, Set Designer

Franca Squarciapino, Costume Designer

Orchestre Colonne

Dorothée Gilbert, Dancer

Mathias Heymann, Dancer

Marion Barbeau, Dancer

Hannah O'Neill, Dancer

Sabrina Mallem, Dancer

Fabien Révillion, Dancer

Charline Giezendanner, Dancer

Eléonore Guérineau, Dancer

Guillaume Charlot, Dancer

Mélanie Hurel, Dancer

Valentine Colasante, Dancer

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Jade Larine

Jade graduated in political sciences then studied Russian civilisation. Conservatoire-trained in classical music in her early years, she also took ballet classes and still stands at the barre in Paris. A devout balletomane, she writes for French ballet medias and carries out researches on Russian ballet and politics. Her interests range from 19th-century Russian ballet to sovietic choregraphy, as well as neoclassical narrative ballets. She particularly enjoys watching ballets at the Bolshoi.