Sep 27, 2021
Elisa Ribes in Relâche, Ballet de Lorraine, December 2017. © Laurent Philippe.
In silence, an elegant woman wearing a green velvet opera cloak emerges from the stalls to join a uniformed, mustachioed fireman on stage, both of them smoking cigarettes. The woman was originally Edith de Bonsdorff, a leading dancer with the Ballets Suédois. The role was taken by the Ballet de Lorraine’s Elisa Ribes, supremely confident in confronting the audience and the performers on stage.