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Comme les Oiseaux - A Portrait of Monique Loudières
Another of Dominique Delouche’s acclaimed ballet films, this program profiles Monique Loudières, one of the Paris Opéra Ballet’s greatest luminaries. The video details her collaborations with many of the most important figures of her time, including extensive footage of coaching sessions with Jerome Robbins, Violette Verdy, Yvette Chauviré, Vladimir Vasiliev, and Jiri Kylian. DVD also includes two bonus featurettes by Dominique Delouche: Autour de la Sylphide, and Aurore.
Rehearsal Sessions and Performances of:
Don Quixote (Monique Loudières, Patrick Dupond)
Mirages (Monique Loudières, Manuel Legris, Cyril Atanassoff)
Coached by Yvette Chauvirè
In the Night (Monique Loudières, Manuel Legris)
Coached by Jerome Robbins
Romeo and Juliet (Monique Loudières, Hervè Dirmann)
Sonatine (Monique Loudières)
Coached by Violet Verdy
Nuages (Manuel Legris)
Coached by Jiri Kylian
Giselle (Monique Loudières, Patrick Dupond)
Coached by Vladimir Vasiliev
Bonuses
Autour de la Sylphide
Ghislaine Thesmar, Michaël Denard, and Yannick Stephant guided by choreographer Pierre Lacotte
Aurore Rosella Hightower rehearses Elisabeth Platel in Sleeping Beauty’s notoriously difficult “Rose Adagio”.
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