Seeing the Paris Opera Ballet’s Paquita on 18 December felt like something of a Christmas miracle. Since opening night on the 5th, the ballet’s holiday run has been repeatedly disrupted by strikes, an increasingly common scenario every December.
Marisa C. Hayes
Marisa C. Hayes is a Franco-American arts writer, curator, and educator based in Paris. She contributes to a variety of print and electronic media in French and English, including CN D Magazine (France), Dance Magazine (USA), and Alternatives Théâtrales (Belgium). She is co-editor of The International Journal of Screendance and a PGR researcher at the University of Brighton. Her research focuses on the intersections between moving images and dance.
