Béatrice Massin is a leading specialist in

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. Her choreographic writing confronts Baroque style with

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. She's the director of the company ''Fêtes galantes''. The daughter of

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and Brigitte Massin, Béatrice Massin began her career with

. In particular, she was a performer of shows by American . She met in 1983 and joined the ''Ris and Danceries'' troupe of which she was successively interpreter, assistant, collaborator and choreographer. Then began a long process of appropriation of the baroque language. In 1993, she founded the company ''Fêtes galantes''. Since then, Béatrice Massin has deepened this approach in her creations. (''Songes'', ''Que ma joie demeure'',...''Que ma joie demeure''
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'', film by

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) and developed an educational centre within the ''Atelier baroque''.

Choreographies

* 2012: ''Terpsichore'' (

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) with the

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, under the direction of

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* 2012: ''Fantaisies'' (

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, Courbois,

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) * 2011: recréation des chorégraphies de Francine Lancelot pour l'opéra '' Atys'' by Lully * 2011: ''La Belle Dame'' (Lully,

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) * 2009: ''Songes'' (Lully,

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) * 2007: ''Un air de folies'' (

, Lambert, Guédron, Bataille, Boësset) * 2006: ''Un voyage d'hiver'' (

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) * 2004: ''Le Loup et l'Agneau'', in ''Fables à la Fontaine'' de La Petite Fabrique * 2004: ''La Parade baroque'', on the occasion of the inauguration of the Centre national de la danse * 2002: ''Que ma joie demeure'' (

) * 1999: choreography for the feature film ''

'' by

References

External links

Official site

Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147
on YouTube
''La Belle au bois dormant''
at Théâtre National de Chaillot
Mass B by Béatrice Massin
at Théâtre National de Chaillot
Béatrice Massin / Compagnie Fêtes galantes
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