Véronique Doisneau (2005) 

 

A film by Jérôme Bel and Pierre Dupouey
Recorded at the Palais Garnier, Opéra National de Paris, Paris (France), October 2005
37 minutes

Conception and direction : Jérôme Bel

With : Véronique Doisneau, Céline Talon, Sujets of the Corps de Ballet of the Paris Opera Ballet

Extracts of ballets borrowed from : Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot (Giselle), Merce Cunningham (Points in Space), Mats Ek (Giselle), Rudolf Noureev (La Bayadère from Marius Petipa / Le Lac des cygnes from Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov)

Music from : Le Lac des cygnes (Piotr Illyitch Tchaïkovski), recording of files of the Paris Opera Orchestra, solo violin Frederic Laroque, directed by Vello Pähn, Giselle (Adolphe Adam), recorded by the Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra, directed by Richard Bonynge, Decca Editions Record Company Ltd., with the pleasant authorization of Universal Music Special Projects France

 A coproduction Opéra national de Paris, Telmondis

In association with France 2

With the participation of Mezzo, Centre National de la Cinématographie

Associate producers : Denis Morlière, Antoine Perset

Special thanks to Merce Cunningham, Mats Ek and the Rudolf Noureev Foundation

 Invited to make a piece for the ballet of the Paris Opera by her director Brigitte Lefèvre, Jérôme Bel wanted to stage a kind of theatrical documentary on the work of one of the dancers of the ballet : Véronique Doisneau. The dancer, closed to the retirement age, alone on stage, retrospectively and subjectively considers her own career as ballerina inside this institution.