From the very beginning of my work, at a time I was engaging in the movement known as the Nouvelle danse française, I was thinking long and hard about ballet. In fact, my first major choreography was a ballet, Ulysse, created in 1981. In the decades that followed it became for me a landmark piece and remains so to the present day. In fact, it has been included in this season’s calendar of performances.
My involvement with ballet has been a constant feature of my career, from the Paris Opera in 1995 and 1999 to numerous other venues, including the operas of the Rhine and Lorraine, the Ballet Contemporaneo of the Teatro San Martín (Buenos Aires), and the Strut Dance in Perth, Australia (2013). The depth and breadth that these transmissions have provided my choreographies encourages me to continue adapting my repertoire to ballet troupes, to maintain the invaluable dialogue between my work and the performers of major companies.
In this dossier I propose several of my pieces for transmission, as well as shorter pieces for collaborative programs : duets, trios, group pieces, including variations that can be performed with a corps de ballet.
Jean-Claude Gallotta

Presentation file

The choreographic pieces intended for opera ballets are :

• Ulysse
• Doctor Labus
• Three Generations
• The Rite of Spring
• Yvan Vaffan
• Daphnis é Chloé
• Sunset Frattell or Sorrel

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