With L’Heure Exquise (based on Oh les beaux jours, one of the highest-reaching pieces of theatre by Samuel Beckett) etoile Alessandra Ferri celebrates forty years of glorious career with a meaningful role, appropriate and emotional for the ballerina she is today: Winnie, the dancer of age imagined by Maurice Béjart in 1998 for Carla Fracci, who, in melancholic solitude, reminisces the happy old days. “At fifty, it is amazing for a ballerina to interpret her own age. Ballet got us used to stories of girl, but I find very beautiful to work on aging characters.” Thus Ferri in a 2014 interview, as she returned to the stage with Chéri by Martha Clarke. All extraordinary female characters for Ferri: Virginia Woolf, Eleonora Duse, and Léa in Chéri. Willy is a former partner of hers, and she is overwhelmed not by the famous sand dune, but by a pile of old ballet shoes.
