Reset (2016)

In early 2013 it was announced that choreographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied known as the man behind the ballet of Black Swan would take over as director of the Paris Opera Ballet Reset finds Millepied on the eve of his first gala with the Opera designing and refining his inaugural choreography for the esteemed institution As a film Reset possesses of the same artistic assuredness as its subject as he blocks out the preliminary steps for his choreography It explores various concepts of space simultaneously the digital space the space of the opera house each scene opens with a declaration of which studio its in and the space of the stage the distance from stage right to stage left Its a portrait of a watershed moment for one of the ballets oldest institutions and one of its brightest new stars both on the cusp of great transition