The Paris Opera Ballet is all the richer for the inclusion of Opus19 /  The Dreamer in its repertoire. This elegant piece, imagined by Jerome  Robbins in 1979, is a variation for two dancers to Sergei Prokofiev’s  First Violin Concerto, portraying the daydream of a young man and his  unreal counterpart.

Source: Telmondis

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Jerome Robbins is  world renowned for his work as a choreographer of ballets as well as  his work as a director and choreographer in theater, movies and  television. His Broadway shows include On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby, High Button Shoes, West Side Story, The King and I, Gypsy, Peter Pan, Miss Liberty, Call Me Madam, and Fiddler on the Roof. His last Broadway production in 1989, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, won six Tony Awards including best musical and best director.

Among the more than 60 ballets he created are Fancy Free, Afternoon of a Faun, The Concert, Dances At a Gathering, In the Night, In G Major, Other Dances, Glass Pieces and Ives, Songs,  which are in the repertories of New York City Ballet and other major  dance companies throughout the world. His last ballets include A Suite of Dances created for Mikhail Baryshnikov (1994), 2 & 3 Part Inventions (1994), West Side Story Suite (1995) and Brandenburg (1996).

In addition to two Academy Awards for the film West Side Story,  Mr. Robbins has received four Tony Awards, five Donaldson Awards, an  Emmy Award, the Screen Directors’ Guild Award, and the New York Drama  Critics Circle Award. Mr. Robbins was a 1981 Kennedy Center Honors  Recipient and was awarded the French Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de  la Legion d’Honneur. Mr. Robbins died in 1998.

Source: Jerome Robbins Foundation

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The Paris Opéra Ballet is the official ballet company of the Opéra national de Paris, otherwise known as the Palais Garnier, though known more popularly simply as the Paris Opéra. Its origins can be traced back to 1661 with the foundation of the Académie Royale de Danse and the Le Ballet de l'Opéra in 1713 by King Louis XIV of France.

The aim of the Académie Royale de Danse was to reestablish the perfection of dance. In the late seventeenth century, using 13  professional dancers to drive the academy, the Paris Opéra Ballet  successfully transformed ballet from court entertainment to a  professional performance art for the masses. It later gave birth to the  Romantic Ballet, the classical form of ballet known throughout the world. The Paris Opéra Ballet dominated European  ballet throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and  remains a leading institution in the art of ballet today.

Source: New World Encyclopedia

Created in 1972 and run by Antoine Perset since 2004, Telmondis is one  of France’s largest audiovisual producers of upscale live performances :  opera, ballet, theatre and world-renowned circus performances, musical  shows, classical and contemporary dancing, jazz, world music and  documentaries.

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