Royal festivities at the French court - interview with Hubert Hazebroucq

Francis I, who was crowned king of France at the age of twenty, was a chivalrous monarch, a builder of châteaux, a patron who gathered around him the most illustrious artists, poets, musicians, architects and engineers of the Renaissance, including Leonardo da Vinci, Benvenuto Cellini and Francesco Primaticcio. Young, athletic and an excellent dancer, he was to involve all those artists in the court entertainments that reached their height with the so-called “Magnificences” - extravagant and highly refined expressions of the art of the French court fête.
Hubert Hazebroucq, dancer
Gloria Giordano, dancer
Olivier Collin, dancer
Annabelle Blanc, dancer
Véronique Bourin, soprano
Hugues Primard, ténor
Pascale Boquet, lute, Renaissance guitar
Elsa Frank, Adrien Reboisson, Jérémie Papasergio, Denis Raisin Dadre, bombards, dulcians and recorders
Bruno Caillat, percussion
Hubert Hazebroucq, choreography
Jérôme Bourdin, costumes
Philippe Vallepin, staging
Jérôme Allart, lighting