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Choreographer Julien Lestel imposes a singular style with his resolutely modern, unique, aesthetic and powerful creations.<div> With Cinderella, choreographer Julien Lestel delivers a profoundly intense and contemporary reinterpretation of the ballet. Far from carriages and castles, Lestel transposes the tale into an oppressive corporate world ruled by an authoritarian and caricatured mother. Cinderella is a low-level employee, harassed by her stepmother and stepsisters.</div><div> The choreography, strikingly physical, alternates between bursts of collective energy and passionate duets. The ballroom scenes, transposed into the incandescent world of a contemporary tech party, explode with energy, speed, and tension, sweeping the dancers away in a veritable choreographic fugue where bodies intersect, attract, and collide with hypnotic intensity.</div><div> In this modern vision, Cinderella is no longer a fragile heroine waiting to be rescued. She becomes a woman in struggle, enduring psychological violence, oppression, and domination, until she finds the strength to rise again and reinvent herself. Every gesture, every movement reflects this inner battle. The fairy godmother becomes the embodiment of her desire for emancipation and her quest for freedom.</div><div> The Prince, founder of a start-up, a charismatic and profoundly human figure, accompanies this metamorphosis in sensual and deeply felt duets, imbued with intense emotion, revealing two individuals who recognize each other in their vulnerability as much as in their desire for freedom. The stroke of midnight does not signal the end of a magical spell, but rather echoes the harassment they endured; their encounter, more than a simple "happy ending," opens the path to healing.</div><div> The music, blending the work of Sergei Prokofiev with the electronic creations of Ivan Julliard, accompanies this constant tension between the external world and interiority, submission and emancipation, classical heritage and modernity.</div><div></div><div> The Ballet Julien Lestel offers a vibrant and universal work, where dance becomes a mirror of our times. A Cinderella burning with emotion, imbued with the power of the body and the hope of rebirth.</div>