Blanca Li
Le Bal de Paris
You are invited to to attend the biggest ball in Paris!
Winner of the Golden Lion in the "Venice VR Expanded" section at the 78ᵃ Venice International Film Festival, Le Bal de Paris is an immersive, participatory and interactive experience created by the impetuous Andalusian choreographer Blanca Li to spectacularly discover virtual reality through dance and music. A gymnast, dancer, choreographer and director, a student of Martha Graham, Blanca Li has performed in hundreds of venues around the world with no less than seventeen creations. After Elektrik, Solstice, Goddesses & Demons, a duet about femininity danced together with Bolshoi Ballet Etoile Maria Alexandrova, and Robot!, in which she combines choreography for dancers and the humanoid robot NAO, the Spanish artist embodies like few the meeting of diverse artistic experiences and the ability to direct change.
"I wanted to create a show that didn't exist yet and that I couldn't have imagined 20 years ago: that's what excites me," says to about her latest Le Bal de Paris, the choreographer, who in the Sala XVII Settembre of the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti puts on a total show, an immersion in an unreal and timeless universe-at once retro, futuristic, classical, contemporary-created ...
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CONCEPTION, DIRECTION AND LIBRETTO
Blanca Li
MUSICAL DIRECTION AND ORIGINAL MUSIC
Tao Gutierrez
DIRECTION OF VISUAL CREATION
Vincent Chazal
COSTUMES
CHANEL with the participation of Almée Moreni
VIRTUAL REALITY DEVELOPMENT
BackLight Studio
company manager Romuald Vervin
technical direction Jeremie Oler
game master Nicolas Huertas Ballester, Héloise Boursier, Lola Kil
dancers Genci Hasa, Margalida Riera Roig, Melissa Cosseta, Gael Rougegrez
Camille Denisty production
assistant choreographer Rafael Linares Torres
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1VLn3f2jyE&t=1s
As whimsical as anyone in crossing dance, film, art, Blanca Li always manages to to bring to life to everything she imagines, with creations animated by technology, shimmering with glamour.
Le Bal de Paris, an immersive virtual reality show branded Chanel, encapsulates all the passions of an artist who in a 30-year career marked by eclecticism has maintained her unmistakable style. "I wanted to create a show that didn't exist yet and that I couldn't have imagined 20 years ago," Blanca Li says, alluding to to a path in which technological innovation has never appeared superficial, but consubstantial to the ...
Blanca Li is a choreographer, dancer, actress and director. In 2019 she became a member of the Academy of Fine Arts and was appointed director of Teatros del Canal de la Comunidad de Madrid.Born to Granada, she joined the national gymnastics team at age 12 and moved to New York to 17 years old to study with Martha Graham. There she also discovered hip hop and fed on the international cultural ferment before returning to Europe where she founded her contemporary dance company to Paris in 1992. Her creations tour the world, attracting large, loyal and enthusiastic audiences.In 2021, she created Le Bal de Paris de Blanca Li to Chaillot, which won the Lion for Best VR Experience at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. This virtual reality show immerses viewers in a fantastical universe and runs at the Théâtre le Palace in Paris for 4 months before heading out on a world tour.In February 2022, she creates a festive hip hop Nutcracker for the Suresnes Cités Danse Festival for eight virtuoso Spanish dancers who combine breakdancing, popping, and Hispanic roots.Blanca Li choreographs and directs numerous ballets, operas and musicals, including Les Indes Galantes atOpera in Paris, Scheherazade for the Ballet ofOpera in Paris_, Treemonisha_ at the Théâtre du Châtelet, El Quijote del Plata for the Sodre de Uruguay National Ballet and recently, Pulcinella for the National Ballet of Spain.She directs three feature films(Le Défi, Pas à Pas and Elektromathematrix) and numerous short films, commercials and music videos.For film, music and fashion, she is chosen as choreographer from big names such as Pedro Almodovar, Jean-Jacques Annaud or Michel Gondry, by Daft Punk, Paul McCartney, Beyoncé, Blur or Coldplay, and from Jean-Paul Gaultier, Azzedine Alaïa, CHANEL or Stella McCartney.Among other awards for her contributions to the arts and dance, she was named Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by President François Hollande and received the Medalla de Oro el Mérito de las Bellas Artes from King Juan Carlos in Spain.
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