Birthday present from best friend:
Tickets to the ballet at the Opera National de Paris Palais Garnier.
\\Priceless.
ROBBINS/EK
Dances at a Gathering/ Appartement
Two choreographers with radically different styles and artistic journeys offer their piercing visions of human relationships. Haunted by Chopin, Jerome Robbins brings together five pairs of dancers to the rhythm of waltzes and mazurkas. Accompanied by the group Fleshquartet, Mats Ek devises eleven sequences like so many chronicles of everyday life.
Dances at a Gathering was a mesmerizingly beautiful story of five couples. I was completely swept away by the music and the movement, I could have watched it for hours. I thought much of how spectacular it must have been to see such a performance in earlier centuries, before modern entertainment.
[Admire something purely beautiful]
{photos courtsey of LIFE}
See it in action here - Robbins / Ek - Video presentation
The modern half was naturally much darker. Depicting the sometimes depressing, sometimes disturbing and frequently bizarre moments of 'everyday' life, this performance contained some butt-slaps and a toilet (not in that particular order) that I don't think Chloe or I will forget.
Notwithstanding, the music was really incredible - I initially thought it was recorded because it was so layered and complex, but then the story raised a curtain to reveal the musicians to a reverent round of applause.
floating away happy - - -
((a little touch of birthday ballet bliss is always a good thing))
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