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In choreographic episodes, combining personal disappointment hastens her dream, memory, premonition and development as a woman. In the end reality John Neumeier's ballet it is she, who sends away, “Tatjana” brings to life the story of although still in love with him. During Tatjana, a young girl brought up in her final encounter with Onegin her the Russian countryside and her first reactions to his direct and passio- great love. She communicates her nate protestations of love are clearly passion spontaneously in a letter to articulated, at the same time woven Onegin – an impressive yet eccentric through with moving observations young man from the city, who clearly about her own life. She remembers, rejects her unconditional love. Years for example, her “poor nurse's tomb” later, in mirror symmetry, Tatjana, and constructs in her imagination in association with already married, rejects Onegin's an image of “the neglected garden” sudden ardent love. In his ballet, John of her childhood. Then, unexpec- Neumeier develops the narrative freely tedly, she says: “I love you (what's after 's verse-novel the use to hide behind deceit or “”, published in 1833. double-dealing?).” She leaves Onegin in no doubt about her true feelings. According to John Neumeier, “Tatjana According to Neumeier, Onegin does is an outsider, a stranger within her not, at any moment during the story, own family. Possessing boundless possess Tatjana's honest resolution imagination, she creates and lives and her ability in the end to balance much of her time in a world of dreams heartfelt emotions with rationality. and phantasies inspired by the many novels she loves to read. Pushkin Above all looms the premonition describes her as ‘wild as a deer’, and memory of the duel in which a girl close to nature. The other he killed his friend Lensky who main character, handsome mundane was engaged to Olga, Tatjana's Eugene Onegin, is neither hero no sister. This tragic event, result of www.telmondis.fr demon. Like Tatjana, he is endowed passion and uncontrolled jealousy Telmondis Distribution is a member of TVFI (tvfrance-intl.com) and IMZ (www.imz.at) with Shakespearean complexity. is enforced by an immovable code Onegin seems to pursue his path of honour, represented by the figure through life without true passion, of Zaretsky. Onegin, who searched obligation or commitment. No burning for passion and purpose in his desire inspiring his journey, no curio- life, shot Lensky, who possessed Antoine Perset Denis Morlière sity directing his drifting, Onegin's exactly that passion and purpose CEO General Manager initial cynicism masks a feeling of to a profound degree. Lensky's T: + 33 1 40 74 76 20 T: + 33 1 40 74 76 21 emptiness and unfulfiled longing.” death haunts Onegin all his life. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

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