Come un respiro/ Gabrielle Chanel
Coliseum, 4th December 2019
“Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.” Coco Chanel was the epitome of style and there was no doubting it in Yuri Possokhov’s ballet which depicts the iconic couturière, created this year for Svetlana Zakharova. There was no doubting the style in the Bolshoi star’s dancing either; long-limbed, elegant, often exuding an aloof air. Yet that sense of distance worked against it too; this is an airbrushed, skin-deep biography where the deepest insights only emerge through the Chanel quotation voiceovers that punctuate the ballet’s twelve scenes.
Svetlana Zakharova (Gabrielle Chanel)
© Jack Devant
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