RB JEROME BEL

       performances
                      veronique doisneau (2004)
                                                     film veronique doisneau

title :

Veronique Doisneau (2004)

conception :

Jerome Bel

coproduction :

Opera national de Paris, Telmondis

in association with :

France 2

with the participation of :

Mezzo, Centre National de la Cinematographie

associate producers :

Denis Morliere and Antoine Perset

directors :

Jerome Bel and Pierre Dupouey

duration :

37 minutes

language :

French with english subtitles

with :

Veronique Doisneau, Celine Talon, Sujets of the Corps de Ballet of the Paris National Opera

extracts of ballets borrowed from :

Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot (Giselle), Merce Cunningham (Points in Space), Mats Ek (Giselle), Rudolf Noureev (La Bayadère - Marius Petipa / Le Lac des cygnes - Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov)

special thanks to :

Merce Cunningham, Mats Ek and the Rudolf Noureev Foundation

music from :

Swan Lake (Piotr Illyitch Tchaïkovski - Orchestra of the Paris National Opera - violin solo Frederic Laroque, directed by Vello Pähn), Giselle (Adolphe Adam - Orchestra of the Monte Carlo Opera directed by Richard Bonynge - Decca Record Company Ltd, with the kind authorization of Universal Music)

recorded at the Palais Garnier :

Paris National Opera
Director : Gerard Mortier
Director of dance : Brigitte Lefevre
Artistic staff coordinator : Hedwig Dewitte
Technical director : Stefano Pace
Assistant technical director : Christian Martin
Audiovisual director : Pierre Moitron
Production manager : Caroline Ludot
Production assistant : Clive Thomas
Stage manager : Laurent Grard
Ballet administrator : Renaud Fauviau
Assistants ballet administrator : Yaelle Beuzelin, Virginia Gris
Sound : Bruno Puig
with the participation of the technical teams of the Paris Opera
Video production manager : Olivier Pajot
Production assistant : Magali Ailloud
Video assistants : Yves Lepoivre, Adrien Perrault, Cedric Weber
Cameras : Richard Devoucoux, Richard Montrobert, Pierre Dupouey
Sound engineers : Bastien Brionne, Christian Vignal.
Make-up : Catherine Lhuerre
Edited by : Catherine Dubois, Emmanuelle Dupont
Sound mixers : Jean-Claude Branger, Cecile Jolivel
Production administrator : Isabelle Merlin
Production assistant : Nathalie Casimiro
Post production assistant : Annick Waterkeyn
Assistant director : Jean-Christophe Ponties
Director of production : Emma Enjalbert


Invited to make a piece for the ballet of the Paris Opera by her director Brigitte Lefèvre, Jérôme Bel wanted to stage a kind of theatrical documentary on the work of one of the dancers of the ballet : Véronique Doisneau. The dancer, closed to the retirement age, alone on stage, retrospectively and subjectively considers her own career as ballerina inside this institution. This film was shot during the last performance of the piece on the stage of the Palais Garnier. It has been produced thanks to Telmondis and the Paris Opéra, and co-realised by Pierre Dupouey and Jérôme Bel.