When he arrives in Saint Petersburg, at the age of 29, Marius Petipa is just an obscure dancer who fled western Europe to escape his debts. He is far from imagining that his engagement in the troupe of the Russian Imperial Ballet, then rather mediocre, will reveal him, forty years later, as one of the greatest choreographers in the history of dance. It is within the Bolshoi Kamenny theaters, then Mariinsky, in a still provincial capital where three productions a year are enough to satisfy an undemanding audience, that this native of Marseille will invent a new art of ballet, over the course of sixty of creations, between 1862 (La fille du pharaon) and 1895 (Le lac des cygnes).
Denis Sneguirev
Writer, Director
Jean-Christophe Brétignière
self
François Devienne
self
Stephan Di Bernardo
self
Xavier Legrand
self
Rudolf Nureyev
self
Tiler Peck
self
Alexei Ratmansky
self
Polina Semionova
self
Raphaëlle Spagnolli
self
Love, Antosha74%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Audrey71%
Public Speaking70%
First Position72%
Maria by Callas73%
Daguerréotypes73%
Varda par Agnès79%
My Mom Jayne79%
The Class of ‘9271%
Katy Perry: Part of Me71%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Directed by John Ford70%
Cameraperson67%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
For the Love of Spock73%
McQueen74%
Night Will Fall76%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
