“Grace”: when Benjamin Millepied makes singer Jeff Buckley’s life dance

In one corner of the stage, amps are stacked and a guitar wails, experimental rock style, as the audience takes their seats. In the center, a sofa and a microphone. The sound of an air vent. Then the light goes out and life springs forth. The music and the words resonate and, soon, the bodies are jumping, stretching, twisting. Until November 10, Benjamin Millepied brings Jeff Buckley and his sublime and captivating songs back to life on stage, in the very beautiful show “Grace – Jeff Buckley Dances”, at the Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine).

In this biopic-style ballet, the character of the extraordinary musician with crazy charisma, who drowned in the Mississippi River in May 1997 at the age of 30, appears surrounded by nine other dancers. The choreographer, former principal dancer of the New York City ballet and ex-director of dance at the Paris Opera, chose 21 songs, taken from the only studio album “Grace” and a posthumous album, “You and I” by the gifted artist. They follow one another, more powerful than ever, carried by the breath of dance and this pure voice.

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