Aurélie Dupont
Aurélie Dupont (born 15 January 1973 in Paris) is a French ballet dancer who performs with the Paris Opera Ballet as an Étoile.
She began her career in dance in 1983 when she entered the Paris Opera Ballet School (L’École de danse de l’Opéra de Paris). She joined the company at age sixteen in 1987, and became a première danseuse in December 1996. Dupont was promoted to star dancer (Étoile) in 1998 after her performance as Kitri in Paris Opera Ballet's revival of Nureyev's production of Don Quixote. She has also starred in Paris Opera Ballet's revival of Nureyev's version of The Sleeping Beauty.[1]
In 2010, Cédric Klapisch released a documentary about Dupont, L'espace d'un instant, which had been made over the previous two years.[2]
Dupont formally retired from the Paris Opera stage following a performance of Kenneth MacMillan's Manon on 18 May 2015.[3]
Contents
Repertoire
Dupont's repertoire includes:
Awards
- 1992 : Gold medallist at the Varna International Ballet Competition (category juniors)
- 1993 : Winner of the French fr
- 1994 : Winner of the AROP (Association pour le rayonnement de l'Opéra national de Paris)
- 2002 : Prix Benois de la Danse
- 2005 : Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
References
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- ↑ Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). L'espace d'un instant at IMDb
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External links
- Aurélie Dupont at the Opéra national de Paris
- Ballet magazine interview, December 2003
- Aurélie Dupont, The Ballerina Gallery
- Aurélie Dupont at the Internet Movie Database
