Cine Club: La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet

Cine Club: Dance on Film is a regular evening of dance film screenings at Dance Cork Firkin Crane. Curated by Luke Murphy - Attic Projects, Cork city dance artist in residence, Cine Club is an informal, relaxed night of short and feature-length dance films (and popcorn) from Irish and international artists.

"A feast for ballet lovers… one of the finest dance films ever made." -A.O. Scott, The New York Times

La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (French: La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris) is a 2009 French documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman. The film follows the production of seven ballets by the Paris Opera Ballet. The featured ballets include: Genus (Wayne McGregor), La maison de Bernarda (Mats Ek), Le songe de Médée (Angelin Preljocaj), Paquita (Pierre Lacotte, after Joseph Mazilier and Marius Pepita), Orpheus und Eurydike (Pina Bausch), Roméo et Juliette (Berlioz) (Sasha Waltz) and The Nutcracker (Rudolph Nureyez version).