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FESTIVAL DE CARCASSONNE - BARBARA, DU BOUT DES LÈVRES
📅 Jul 5, 2026
📍 Place Saint-Nazaire, 11000 Carcassonne
À propos
Internationally-renowned choreographer Benjamin Millepied plunges into the world of Barbara for his new creation: he pays tribute to Barbara?s sensitive, timeless universe through a subtle choreographic language of restrained emotion, poetic gesture and expressive power.
Influenced since childhood by French chanson, he draws on this intimate memory to create a dance momentum nourished by the singer?s powerful melodies and chiselled words. In an uncluttered space bathed in light and immaculate drapes, bodies appear and disappear, embodying the range of emotions that run through Barbara?s work? between nostalgia, passion, sweetness and tragedy. In Du bout des lèvres, Barbara?s songs become the very breath of movement. Like Brahms?s Liebeslieder Walzer or Balanchine?s great ballets, her waltzes resonate in the dance as a celebration of life. Benjamin Millepied brings to life the skin-deep humanity and vibrant poetry of one of the twentieth century?s most moving voices.
Benjamin Millepied is an internationally acclaimed choreographer, director and former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. Born in Bordeaux, France, and raised in Senegal, he trained at the Lyon Conservatory and then at the School of American Ballet in New York.
He joined New York City Ballet in 1995 and became a principal dancer in 2001, performing leading roles in works by Balanchine, Robbins and many others, as well as embarking on a prolific career as a choreographer. Since then, he has created works for some of the world?s leading companies, including the Paris Opera Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and the Dutch National Ballet, often in collaboration with visual artists and composers such as Nico Muhly, Daniel Buren and Barbara Kruger. In 2012, he co-founded L.A. Dance Project, a company renowned for its innovative performances and artistic residencies, supported by Van Cleef & Arpels. As Director of Dance at the Opéra de Paris (2013?2016), Millepied launched a digital platform, a dance medicine program, and commissioned numerous creations from contemporary choreographers. He also invites the Batsheva Dance Company to perform on the Opéra stage for the first time. He choreographed and starred in Darren Aronofsky?s Black Swan, and in 2023 directed his first feature film, Carmen (Sony Pictures Classics), for which he received a nomination at the Chita Rivera Awards for Best Choreography. In 2022, he launches the Paris Dance Project with Solenne du Haÿs Mascré, an initiative dedicated to dance education and the creative process, including La Ville Dansée, a public space event supported by Chanel and Richard Mille. With Solenne du Haÿs Mascré, he also founded Paris Danse, a production company dedicated to the creation and distribution of his choreographic works.
For over twenty years, Benjamin Millepied has conceived and commissioned interdisciplinary projects. As a choreographer, he is both classical and modern, deeply inspired by music. His works are born of the scores and artists with whom he collaborates, fusing sound and movement to offer unique experiences that plunge audiences into the very heart of the music. In November 2026, Benjamin Millepied will present for the first time at the Folies Bergère, three original creations inspired by love, joy and freedom: Barbara, Du bout des lèvres, inspired by the world of the singer Barbara; Summerland, a luminous voyage into the world of November Ultra; and Move Me Once More, Le dernier Cabaret, co-written with Léa Mysius, an incandescent cabaret.
Influenced since childhood by French chanson, he draws on this intimate memory to create a dance momentum nourished by the singer?s powerful melodies and chiselled words. In an uncluttered space bathed in light and immaculate drapes, bodies appear and disappear, embodying the range of emotions that run through Barbara?s work? between nostalgia, passion, sweetness and tragedy. In Du bout des lèvres, Barbara?s songs become the very breath of movement. Like Brahms?s Liebeslieder Walzer or Balanchine?s great ballets, her waltzes resonate in the dance as a celebration of life. Benjamin Millepied brings to life the skin-deep humanity and vibrant poetry of one of the twentieth century?s most moving voices.
Benjamin Millepied is an internationally acclaimed choreographer, director and former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. Born in Bordeaux, France, and raised in Senegal, he trained at the Lyon Conservatory and then at the School of American Ballet in New York.
He joined New York City Ballet in 1995 and became a principal dancer in 2001, performing leading roles in works by Balanchine, Robbins and many others, as well as embarking on a prolific career as a choreographer. Since then, he has created works for some of the world?s leading companies, including the Paris Opera Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and the Dutch National Ballet, often in collaboration with visual artists and composers such as Nico Muhly, Daniel Buren and Barbara Kruger. In 2012, he co-founded L.A. Dance Project, a company renowned for its innovative performances and artistic residencies, supported by Van Cleef & Arpels. As Director of Dance at the Opéra de Paris (2013?2016), Millepied launched a digital platform, a dance medicine program, and commissioned numerous creations from contemporary choreographers. He also invites the Batsheva Dance Company to perform on the Opéra stage for the first time. He choreographed and starred in Darren Aronofsky?s Black Swan, and in 2023 directed his first feature film, Carmen (Sony Pictures Classics), for which he received a nomination at the Chita Rivera Awards for Best Choreography. In 2022, he launches the Paris Dance Project with Solenne du Haÿs Mascré, an initiative dedicated to dance education and the creative process, including La Ville Dansée, a public space event supported by Chanel and Richard Mille. With Solenne du Haÿs Mascré, he also founded Paris Danse, a production company dedicated to the creation and distribution of his choreographic works.
For over twenty years, Benjamin Millepied has conceived and commissioned interdisciplinary projects. As a choreographer, he is both classical and modern, deeply inspired by music. His works are born of the scores and artists with whom he collaborates, fusing sound and movement to offer unique experiences that plunge audiences into the very heart of the music. In November 2026, Benjamin Millepied will present for the first time at the Folies Bergère, three original creations inspired by love, joy and freedom: Barbara, Du bout des lèvres, inspired by the world of the singer Barbara; Summerland, a luminous voyage into the world of November Ultra; and Move Me Once More, Le dernier Cabaret, co-written with Léa Mysius, an incandescent cabaret.