Major Patron of the Paris Opera since 2023, CHANEL is proud to support this major dance institution for its tour in Kuala Lumpur where Paris Opera dancers gave two representations on 18^th and 19^th of November.

On this occasion and as Founding Patron of the Paris Opera Junior Ballet, CHANEL imagined the costumes of the dancers aged between 18 and 23 for their performances in the ballet “Eternal Rift” in Kuala Lumpur, choreographed by Julian Nicosia.

The Paris Opera Junior Ballet, created in 2024, is a new company with dancers recruited through competition for a two-year professional training contract. Envisaged as a hothouse for young talents, the Paris Opera Junior Ballet addresses several challenges: diversifying the profiles of dancers, promoting their professional integration, and strengthening the notion of openness to audiences through tours and outreach activities, all while continuing the Paris Opera’s three-century-old savoir-faire. Throughout their training, the young artists will deepen their mastery of the Paris Opera’s classical and contemporary repertoire and gain stage experience in performances at home and on tour in France and abroad.

Other ballets from the repertoire were performed by the Junior Ballet alongside Étoile dancers Sae-Eun Park and Roxane Stojanov, Premier danseur Francesco Mura, and Sujet Antonio Conforti: Allegro Brillante by George Balanchine, À La Manière De... by Jean-Guillaume Bart, Gisele’s Act II “pas de deux”, and Mi Favorita by José Martinez.

By supporting the Paris Opera Junior Ballet, CHANEL continues its commitment to the next generations of talents and strengthens its ties with dance.

Rehearsals and savoir-faire photographs by Erwann Petersen