#paris-opera-ballet

#paris-opera-ballet

And so it was with all manner of promise and high hopes the curtain rose on the 75-minute work, an investigation of red carpets-their glamour, traditions, history, celebrity associations, and more. The grim underbelly of glamour, in Shechter's imagination is grotesqueness, grit, grime, and ambiguity. All of this made its way into the abstract narrative. The set, lighting, music, and pacing of the London-based choreographer's ballet were evocative of an underground cabaret or a warehouse nightclub