Dancers

Marion Barbeau and Simon Le Borgne

About

What starts as an intimate duet expands into a human tide: a community that breathes, surges, and reshapes itself in waves. Pite’s writing is razor-precise yet deeply emotional, as if the voice were constantly searching for a body to inhabit—pulling the dancers between instinct and control, matter and spirit, individuality and the collective. Set against Chopin's Preludes, the work unfolds in shifting chapters, moving from confrontation to communion, and finally toward a strange, transformative vision of the group. This organism questions what it means to belong, to resist, and to be moved from the inside out.

Interpreters

Chiara Bacci and Giacomo Castellana

About

Faun – Threshold of Desire explores the fine line between instinct and consciousness, wild nature and emerging humanity. A liminal creature—neither fully animal nor fully human— the Faun inhabits a suspended world of primary impulses, attuned to earth, breath, and silence. The sudden arrival of a female presence disrupts this fragile balance. She is not merely another body, but a force of transformation. Their encounter becomes a metaphor for desire: attraction and fear, curiosity and defense, surrender and control—expressed through an intense physical dialogue of proximity and distance, contact and withdrawal.

The duet unfolds as a sequence of emotional states rather than a linear narrative. She moves like wind—passing through, transforming, never staying—while the Faun attempts to hold what cannot be possessed. When she disappears, he remains alone, yet altered: solitude becomes awareness, vulnerability, and the emergence of a new identity shaped by desire and loss.

Interpreter

Letizia Masini

About

The work draws inspiration from the luminous, intimate sensibility of Emily Dickinson— her ability to transform silence into momentum, the invisible into presence, and fragility into strength. Dancer Letizia Masini, an elegant and intense performer— and herself a writer of verses—embodies a body that writes and a soul that listens. Each gesture emerges like an unspoken word: a poem taking shape in space and time.

The solo moves through themes dear to the poet: fertile solitude, nature as companion and mirror, and emotions that live just beneath the skin. Movement traces the threshold between intimacy and revelation—between holding back and daring, closing inward and opening toward the world. A journey through the inner landscape of a woman who writes, with her body, a poem not yet spoken.

Interpreters

Matteo Miccini & Edoardo Sartori

Dancers

Sandra Salietti Aguilera & Eve-Marie Dalcourt

About

The Ballroom draws inspiration from the composed grace, fluid lines, and circular waltz movements. In this piece, two female performers take the lead roles, echoing the waltz's traditional imagery while rewriting its narrative. The choreography explores a new balance between strength and delicacy, structure and freedom, lightness and obsession.

Dancer

Marion Barbeau
(Paris Opera Ballet)

Music

Nina Simone — Stars (live rendition of Janis Ian’s song)

About

Alan Lucien Øyen was invited to create this solo for Aurélie Dupont during her time as étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet. Set to Nina Simone’s searing live rendition of Janis Ian’s Stars, the work reflects on the distance between public image and private self.

Within a precise technical frame, the choreography explores natural human body language — gestures revealing vulnerability, resilience, and the quiet weight of expectation. It traces a life lived under projection and scrutiny, asking what remains when achievement, identity, and visibility no longer define the individual.

"Carrying the emotional gravity of Ian’s lyrics, Stars examines the cost of being seen and the fragile humanity beneath the role one is asked to embody. Originally interpreted by Aurélie Dupont, the solo is currently performed by Marion Barbeau."

Interpreters

Maria Kochetkova and Sebastian Kloborg