Summerland — November Ultra

Experience Benjamin Millepied at the Folies Bergère: an exclusive evening with two shows from among his three new creations, a ballet of your choice followed by a blazing contemporary cabaret. The evening opens at 7pm with a choice of ballets: Barbara, Du bout des lèvres, in which bodies move through Barbara's work as one moves through an entire lifetime, revealing tenderness, passion and memory in an exuberant yet pared-back dance; or Summerland, a luminous ballet set to the music of November Ultra, which unfolds a gentle, sensitive and poetic world. At 9pm comes Move Me Once More, a cabaret co-written with Léa Mysius, staging a party electrified by bodies, voices and lights, in which a community is reborn from a future without memory and affirms what matters most: loving, dancing, celebrating freedom. This season of Benjamin Millepied at the Folies Bergère offers three shows that celebrate joy and love.

Music: November Ultra

Summerland is a ballet that gives body to the delicate, timeless world of November Ultra. On a luminous, pared-back stage space inspired by the infinite horizons of James Turrell, voices, colours and movements fuse into something poetic. November Ultra appears there as a living muse, a radiant centre around which moments of intimacy gradually open into spaces of communion. The title evokes Summerland, a small Californian town steeped in light and memories, a metaphor for a place both real and imagined. The show thus unfolds as a sensory landscape and a promise: a sensual, luminous horizon where dance and music together invent a gentler vision of the world.

Running time: 1h15, no interval.