Le théâtre du corps

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Marie-Claude Pietragalla, a key figure in French dance - former étoile, choreographer - is a rare, committed, visionary artist. Here, she talks about her career, her dreams, her projects and her unshakeable desire to be, above all, a "popular artist". An emblematic figure of French dance, Marie-Claude Pietragalla is a rare, committed and visionary artist. Star dancer with the Opéra de Paris and choreographer, she founded the Théâtre du Corps, an independent company, with choreographer Julien Derouault.

he collaboration between these two atypical artists is based on a permanent synergy, a complicity that enables them to take a double look at the world and their creative work: masculine and feminine, real and fantasized, abrupt and poetic, funny and dramatic. For both of them, the body is the place where the manifestations of human experience are inscribed. Performing arts, moments of sharing and transcendence, an unprecedented dialogue between stage and audience, must not be elitist, but a dream-creator for all.

"Today, we believe in the need to transfigure the world through the body, and to create new forms of expression, the language of the body being the oldest and most universal of the performing arts. "With all the passion that characterizes her, "Pietra" looks back on her career, her dreams and her unshakeable desire to be a free artist.