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Synopsis

This documentary will focus on Sylvie’s past, present and future dance activities as well as her palpable desire to excel and her unrelenting questioning of her own work in the world of dance.
At first, everything seemed set for the talented little gymnast being groomed by her own mother for the world of competition gymnastics. But, fiery, spirited, temperamental, young Sylvie took more after her tyrannical, illiterate, Spanish grandmother. She knew what she wanted.
Ballet was Sylvie’s choice, from the Opéra National de Paris to the Royal Ballet in London.
Sylvie Guillem’s leap ahead has swept her into artistic experiments with creators of very different horizons: Robert Lepage, Russel Maliphant and Akram Khan (as a choreographer specialist in Indian classical dance, he has brought a third dimension to Sylvie’s work.
Shooting of this documentary will encompass the entirety of Sylvie’s rehearsals with Robert Lepage and Russel Maliphant
The essential ingredients will be : the North American spirit of innovation, the blurring of lines between European classical and contemporary dance, and the magic and ancient wisdom of Asia.

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