Renaud et Armide - Médée et Jason

Jean-George Noverre and Jean-Joseph Rodolphe

Médée et Jason (1775)

Renaud et Armide (1775)

Armide Sabine Novel

Médée Sarah Berreby

Renaud Noah Hellwig

Jason Adrian Navarro

Ubalde Bruno Benne

Créuse Émilie Brégougnon

Le Chevalier danois Olivier Collin

Créon Daniel Housset

Compagnie L’Éventail

Choreography Marie-Geneviève Massé

Volodia Lesluin, Irène Ginger,

Marie Blaise, Bérengère Bodénan,

Adeline Lerme, Anne-Sophie Berring,

Karin Modigh, Romain Arreghini.

Le Concert Spirituel

Conductor Hervé Niquet

Director Vincent Tavernier

The invention of the ballet d'action, due to the genius of the French choreographer Noverre, established the total emancipation of dance: gesture was now as strong as speech. Competing with Gluck, Noverre imagined ballets on the most ambitious subjects. While he retained marvellous Baroque episodes, brilliant costumes and impressive machinery effects, he sought above all to render feelings in all their subtlety, from tenderest love to most murderous rage, already heralding future Romanticism.