{"id":37528,"date":"2019-10-01T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T10:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/?p=37528"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:33:52","slug":"interview-with-marc-moreau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/interview-with-marc-moreau\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW WITH MARC MOREAU -talk about responsibilities, egos and his new life"},"content":{"rendered":"

After getting promoted to First soloist, less than a year ago, he didn\u2019t have any party. Yet he still dreams of dancing more classical roles and considers his company a big family. ALESSANDRO BIZZOTTO meets the Parisian dancer to talk about responsibilities, egos and his new life now that internal competitions are over for him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Marc Moreau in Sleight of hand \u00a9 A. Poupeney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I meet Marc Moreau at the stage door of the Palais Garnier in a late afternoon, after a matin\u00e9e performance. It is Sunday, the yellow-jacket protests are smaller, yet still quite fierce \u2013 everything seems slow today in Paris. At least I am not late.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After joining the corps of the Paris Opera Ballet in 2004, Moreau was promoted to the rank of Coryph\u00e9e in 2004 and to Sujet two years later. It was last November that he won his last internal contest and got promoted to Premier danseur, or First soloist, dancing Jeanne de Brienne\u2019s variation from \u201cRaymonda\u201d and the one from Nureyev\u2019s \u201cManfred\u201d. We take a seat in a corner of the canteen of the theatre. Somewhere a television is playing, the news broadcast speaks of the yellow-jackets again. Moreau is polite and thorough, and he maintains a prudent approach.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Marc Moreau in Brahms-Sch\u00f6enberg Quartet \u00a9-F. Levieux ONP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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How many internal competitions<\/strong> did you take part in as a Sujet, before getting promoted to Premier danseur?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I spent seven or eight years as a Sujet\u2026 so I think seven or eight competitions!<\/p>\n

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Marc Moreau in In Crease \u00a9 S. Math\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Is it frustrating in your eyes to keep taking part in them?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It could be sometimes, but this is how the company works. To my mind, it was particularly frustrating on the occasions of my last competitions, after having had the chance to dance a lot during the last few years, including several leading roles\u2026 You know, you are out there and you still have to show that you are able to take on responsibilities by dancing two variations. Before the 2018 competition, I had told myself it would be my last internal competition.<\/p>\n

Really?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes. I felt it was becoming too tiring and it started being…<\/p>\n

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After getting promoted to First soloist, less than a year ago, he didn\u2019t have any party. Yet he still dreams of dancing more classical roles and considers his company a big family. ALESSANDRO BIZZOTTO meets the Parisian dancer to talk about responsibilities, egos and his new life now that internal competitions are over for him. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3014,"featured_media":37532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exklusiv","category-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39787,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37528\/revisions\/39787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}