Marius Petipa, le maître français du ballet russe

Marius Petipa, le maître français du ballet russe

When he arrives in Saint Petersburg, at the age of 29, Marius Petipa is just an obscure dancer who fled western Europe to escape his debts. He is far from imagining that his engagement in the troupe of the Russian Imperial Ballet, then rather mediocre, will reveal him, forty years later, as one of the greatest choreographers in the history of dance. It is within the Bolshoi Kamenny theaters, then Mariinsky, in a still provincial capital where three productions a year are enough to satisfy an undemanding audience, that this native of Marseille will invent a new art of ballet, over the course of sixty of creations, between 1862 (La fille du pharaon) and 1895 (Le lac des cygnes).

Top Cast

Jean-Christophe Brétignière

As self

François Devienne

As self

Stephan Di Bernardo

As self

Xavier Legrand

As self

Rudolf Nureyev

As self

Tiler Peck

As self

Alexei Ratmansky

As self

Polina Semionova

As self

Raphaëlle Spagnolli

As self

Cassandra Trenary

As self