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Monique Loudières at work.
Monique Loudières, a white and ghostly shadow, runs, arms stretched out, in the maze-like corridors of the Palais Garnier. By depicting the fantasies of purity and lightness linked to the practice of dance at the Opéra, the film receives into the tradition of this century-old institution the dancer who was named Etoile in 1982.
A variety of sequences show Monique Loudières at work. In a voice over, Violette Verdy, a former Opéra dancer, advises her and congratulates her on her career. We attend rehearsals of Mirages with Yvette Chauviré and Cyril Atanassoff, and of In the night by Jérome Robbins who asks the interpreter to dance not ‘on’ but ‘in’ the music. We bump into her friends and partners, Patrick Dupond and Manuel Legris, before, finally, rediscovering her ready to fly off the rooftops of the Opéra in the white cloud of her costume sculptured by the Paris wind.
Source : Patrick Bossatti
