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Phnom Penh Post – Paris Opera Dancing Stars Bring Happiness in Children’s Hospital
The Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia’s leading English-language daily, covers the Paris Opera Ballet’s visit to Necker Hospital, focusing on the smiles and happiness brought to children through dance.
Paris Opera dancing stars bring happiness in children’s hospital
In an intensive care unit, an intubated boy is watching intensely as two star dancers from the Paris Opera twirl before him in shimmering costumes.
“We’re going to do a promenade, an arabesque, a porte poisson,” says dancer Hugo Marchand as he pulls off some elaborate moves with his partner Dorothee Gilbert around the bed and beeping machines.
“We just came to say a little hello,” he says as they depart, and the child gives a small wave of acknowledgement.
The dancers move from room to room, dressed in the green and gold costumes of the “La Bayadere” ballet – with added surgical masks – joking with caregivers and getting some bemused expressions from the patients.
In one room, it’s a baby watching them, eyes wide as Gilbert’s pirouette sets her dress fluttering.