Pas d’École

PAS D’ÉCOLE

Two films by Miguel Octave

Demonstrations of the Paris Opera Ballet School
The Demonstrations of the Ballet School are a traditional checkpoint for the institution: they consist of a performance where the audience can appreciate the beautiful and rich education of classical dance taught at the Paris Opera. Considered as one of the School’s highlights, this moment unveils the teaching methods of a traditional artistic knowledge. Led by their teachers, the students display the different skills necessary to master the codes of classical dance and the French style. The Demonstrations also invite the public to discover other artistic disciplines or choreographic styles that complete the student’s training: contemporary, folk, baroque, and character dances, mime and music class.

The School of Dreams
The Paris Opera Ballet School really is the school of dreams for each and everyone of its students, that all wish to became professional dancers for the Paris Opera Ballet. This intimate documentary film allows us to discover, through interviews and sneak peeks of the classes, their schedule, their day-to-day training, their passion, their hopes, their relationships with the teachers and ballet masters, and finally their ambition to become, one day maybe, an Étoile of the Ballet…

Recorded at the École de Danse de l’Opéra national de Paris, Nanterre, December 2020