Bel literally gives voice to an artist whose primary job has been to be beautiful and quiet, not drawing attention to herself.
Jerome Bel made this piece for the corps de ballet dancer of the Paris Opera
ballet, Veronique Doisneau. This film has been done during her last performance of this piece
Doisneau discusses her life as a ballet dancer, part of that group of women who, although fully adult, are still called mesdemoiselles backstage at the Paris Opera. She shares information about her salary, her children. She reveals a mature, regular person going about her work. In a soft aside, she wonders if she wasn’t talented enough to become a star.
Bel has, once again, created a precise and moving performance that turns around and questions its own nature. He looks at, and critiques, the very particular world of dance. But he also gives his work the space to move into the most tender, and broad, and complex corners of human experience.
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