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The Arts Intel Report

L'Après-Midi d'Un Faune / L'Enfant et Les Sortilèges

Jan 18–29, 2020
Place de la Bastille, 75012 Paris, France

“Nijinsky’s version, it’s very beautiful,” Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker said in 2006, when she premiered her own version of Debussy’s The Afternoon of a Faun. “The dancers are the ones who really convinced me that we should dare to perform a different version that doesn’t deny the past.” De Keersmaeker’s dares and experiments are always worth seeing. The Paris Opera Ballet pairs Faune with Ravel’s opera The Spellbound Child, which has a libretto by Colette. —L.J.