Ballet Nice Méditerranée, the young and versatile company, directed by Éric Vu-An, is making its début at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

Vu-An’s career, now in the international sphere, began when Rudolf Nureyev gave the nineteen-year old the role of Basilio in Don Quixote, and later other roles in Romeo and Juliet and Swan Lake.

For the 2019 Dance Season, Vu-An is presenting an enthralling Triptych of outstanding works, performed by some of modern ballet’s most outstanding dancers.

Inspired by Alphonse Daudet’s tale based on a real event.
The striking aspect of this work, from the outset, is its overall gravitas. The ballet corps, dressed in black and white, dances to a rigid, precise, distinct and practically military-like choreography.

Ben Stevenson’s Three Preludes sees dancers perform with a continual complicity, and essential quality to enthral and entrance the audience with a performance that is elegant, moving and languid.
Two dancers during their exercises at the barre fall in love and become caught up in a superb pas de deux.

5 Tangos is the maximum expression of classical dance coming together with the music of Astor Piazzolla.
The pointes of the dancers respond to the arabesques of the men on the pizzicato notes of the double bass, while each accent of the melody is performed with tones that at times are soft, and at times are hard.
The tango is a subtle blend of solemnity and fantasy, making dance an art between life and death.