53 years old, the Spanish dancer succeeds Aurélie Dupont, who left office on July 31.
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What wait! What effervescence! The name of the new Dance Director of the Paris National Opera is… José Martinez! The news was announced at 10 am, Friday October 28, during a special rally with the Ballet dancers, that Alexander Neef, director of the Paris National Opera, and José Martinez wished to update the first. A few days before the famous Ballet promotion competition, which is held Friday, November 4 and Saturday, November 5, the new director will be well on the benches of the jury, surrounded by his peers.
José Martinez, 53, knows the house on his fingertips. There are everything interpreted, from the ballets of the repertoire signed Rudolf Nureev (1938-1993) to the pieces of Mats Ek and Pina Bausch (1940-2009). Sacred star in 1997 for his performance in the Sylphide, the one who turned out to be as subtle and precise in the roles of prince as in more strange characters like Nosferatu, in the contemporary choreography of Jean-Claude Gallotta, retired in 2011, in a production he had himself staged, the children of paradise. From 2011 to 2019, he returned to Spain, his native country – he was born in Cartagena – to direct the national dance company, in Madrid. Since then, he has collaborated in freelance with different companies.
Finally, the flagship troop has a captain. Since the surprise resignation of Aurélie Dupont, who took effect on July 31, the appointment of the new director or the new Dance Director of the Paris National Opera has caused a lot of ca. More than logical. This position of high responsibility, very in sight and coveted, at the heart of the most subsidized French star institution in live performance (around 95 million euros in grant on the 230 million overall budgets in the 2019-2020 season) attracts All the most meticulous attention and deserves attention.
Rumors, hypotheses and forecasts, we heard everything. In addition to the mission entrusted to a selection advisory committee set up by Alexander Neef, “to support him in the choice of the next post”, and composed, under the leadership of Bernard Stirn, honorary president of the board of directors From the Paris National Opera and member of the Institute, the choreographers Carolyn Carlson, Angelin Preljocaj and the dancer Charles Jude, Neef himself won his phone. He thus asked for possible candidates including Cédric Andrieux, Director of choreographic studies at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance of Paris, Maud Le Pladec, director of the Choreographic Center of Orleans, or Noé Soulier, choreographer at the heads of the National Center of Contemporary dance of Angers.
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