Paris Opera Ballet: Le Parc (2026)
Paris Opera Ballet: Le Parc (2026)
Encore Screenings! ‘What has become of love today?’ asked Angelin Preljocaj in 1994, when he created Le Parc for the Paris Opera Ballet. Thirty years later, the world has changed again, but his timeless ballet has travelled around the world. In a French-style garden, the choreography draws us into the seduction games of the Grand Siècle and the Age of Enlightenment, appealing to our classical musical and literary imagination: famous works by Mozart, the Map of Tendre, Dangerous Liaisons. But Preljocaj breaks with tradition by introducing a contemporary soundtrack and a choreographic language composed of broken lines and sensual movements. Like the final pas de deux, where the bodies whirl around for a languorous kiss: a moment of grace that has become the signature of this ballet.
Sessions preceded by Australian Premiere Screenings of 8-minute short Bartók by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, by award-winning cinematographer Joe Shemesh, which pairs the orchestra’s enthralling performance of music by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók with evocative imagery from across Lutruwita / Tasmania. The film won a Silver Cinematography Award from the Australian Cinematographers Society in 2025.