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The FNAC shops in all big towns and irgin Megastores in the main
cities have copious listings of what's on and are the best booking
agencies for gigs, ballet or theatre
Dance and mime
The French regional contemporary dance companies - including
Régine Chopinot's troupe from La Rochelle, Jean-Claude Gallotta's from
Grenoble, Mathilde Monnier's from Montpellier, Karine Saporta's from
Caen, and Joêlle Bouier and Régis Obadia's from Angers - easily rial
the Paris-based troupes, though the exciting choreographers
Jean-François Duroure and the Californian Carolyn Carlson are both based
in or around the capital. Other names to watch for are Maguy Marin in
Créteil and François erret in Auberilliers.
Humor, everyday actions and obsessions, social problems and the darker
shades of life find expression in the myriad current dance forms.
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multidimensional performing art is created by combinations of movement,
mime, ballet, music from the medieal to contemporary jazz-rock, speech,
noise and theatrical effects.
Philippe Genty's company in Paris combines
dance, drama and marionettes to astonishing effect while the Gallotta-choreographed
film Rei-Dom opened up a whole new range of possibilities. Many
of the traits of the modern epic theatre are shared with dance,
including crossing international frontiers.
Though the famous Lecoq School of Mime and Improvisation in Paris still
turns out excellent artists, pure mime - as practised by the
incomparable Marcel Marceau - hardly exists, except on the streets and
at Périgueux's international festial of mime.
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classical ballet (again well represented inFestivals), the two
most renowned companies are the Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris at
the Opéra-Garnier and the Opéra-Bastille, whose dance director is
Brigitte Lefère, and the Ballet National de Marseille, whose artistic
director is Roland Petit. Other classical ballet companies are based in
Aignon, Bordeaux, Lyon, Toulouse and St-Etienne.
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