In a week’s time, the BALLET2000 Prix will host its annual event in Cannes, this year dedicated to the memory of Maya Plisetskaya.
When the prize was launched, in 2004, then known as Les Étoiles de BALLET2000, the first Lifetime Achievement Award went to Plisetskaya. The 79-year-old not only collected her prize, but danced too: the Ave Maya solo created for her by Maurice Béjart. Her husband, the Russian composer Rodion Schedrin, played the notes of Gounod’s Ave Maria on stage, with cellist Luis Felipe Serrano, while Plisetskaya, elegant, as always, in a costume designed for her by Pierre Cardin, danced simple steps adorned by her magnificent ports de bras as she waved two Japanese-like fans.
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