The director has been chosen to ensure the artistic direction of opening and fence ceremonies, which will take place in the capital.
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He says he is “turned upside down” to have been chosen on Wednesday, September 21, by the Organization Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP) to ensure the artistic direction of the four opening and closing ceremonies Olympic Games (from July 26 to August 11) and Paralympic Games (from August 28 to September 8) from Paris 2024. At 40, actor and director Thomas Jolly, attached to the phone in full rehearsal of the recovery From the musical Starmania, the tandem Luc Plamondon-Michel Berger, which will be presented from November at the Seine Musicale de Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), welcomes this mission with “joy and pride”. He was contacted in the spring by the Committee, which had retained the names of a dozen people from the world of the show.
noticed for its marathon shows (twenty-four hours for the Shakespearean tetralogy presented this year at the quay in Angers) which leave the spectator exhausted but transported by the creativity of his staging, the forty-something man, director of the Dramatic Center of the Quai In Angers since 2020, a scene is offered to the dimension of his imagination, in the heart of Paris, with the Seine as a common thread.
And for an audience of several billion people around the world, beyond the 500,000 that can follow the festivities from the banks of the river. “There is of course pressure, but joy soothes my fear. I make public theater with the ambition of addressing the greatest number. There, it will be the whole world!” Exclaim-t -It, also proud to be entrusted with this responsibility one hundred years after the previous Parisian Olympic Games in 1924. In 1992, during the Albertville Winter Olympic Games, it was the choreographer Philippe Decouflé who had staged the ceremony opening.
“Break the codes”
The dimensions of the “scene” he will have to animate do not scare him any more. The prospect of using the river as a tray even appears to him as “a great poetic opportunity. And the possibility of going up the course of the history of Paris by going up the course of the Seine, dotted with monuments. The device is ambitious, c ‘is the first time that cerenominies will not have taken place in a stadium “.
At a time when the word “sobriety” stands out everywhere, how does he imagine being able to reconcile this notion with the flamboyance that characterizes his work? “We can be sober and spectacular. But however, we will not fall into a cardboard decorum!”, Answers Thomas Jolly, who, in his staging on the border of theater, cinema and opera -Rock, has always strives to use recovery sets.
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