Le Jeune Homme et la Mort

Nicolas Le Riche and MarieAgnès Gillot star in the legendary Roland Petit and Jean Cocteaus pioneering oneact ballet Le Jeune homme et la Mort This 2005 production at the Opéra de Paris stays true to Petits original scenic and choreographic conception from the dark dingy apartment of the Young Man to the disturbing yellow dress and jetblack coiffe of the villainess A mesmerizing drama in dance as virtuosic as it is unsettling