Aurelie Dupont (Dancer)
1983 enters the Ballet School 1987 is engaged at 16 in the Corps de Ballet 1991 "Coryphee" 1992 "Sujet" 1996 "Premiere Danseuse" 1998 Following a performance of Don Quichotte (Rudolf Noureev), on 31 December 1998, she is named "Etoile" CHRONOLOGY 1983: enters the Ballet School.
1989: is engaged at 16 in the Corps de ballet.
1991: "Coryphee".
1992: "Sujet".
Is one of the three shades in La Bayadиre (Nureyev).
1993: dances the "pas de deux des paysans" in Giselle (after Coralli and Perrot), "Sanguin" in Les Quatre tempйraments (Balanchine)and Tchaikovski-pas de deux (Balanchine) in the "Jeunes danseurs" evenings.
1994: Prix du Cercle Carpeaux.
Performs Gamzatti in the "Pas de six" from La Bayadere(Nureyev) at the "Jeunes danseurs" evenings.
1995: dances the "Pas de six" from Napoli (Bournonville), In the Middle Somewhat Elevated (Forsythe), Etudes (Lander), one of the "deux amies"and the "Demoiselle d’honneur" from Don Quichotte (Nureyev), the "Pas de trois" from Paquita (after Petipa).
1996: she is Clara in The Nutcracker (Nureyev), the "Jeune Fille" in Le Loup (Petit), Marie in Annonciation (Preljocaj) and Le Printemps in The Four Seasons (Robbins).
Promoted to "Premiere danseuse".
She dances: Les Sylphides (Fokine), Grand pas classique (Gsovsky), "Pas de deux des ecossais" in La Sylphide(Lacotte), Manon in L’Histoire de Manon (MacMillan), Raymonda, Kitri in Don Quichotte, Gamzatti in La Bayadиre(Nureyev), Soir de fete (Staats), Ancient Airs and Dances (Tanner), Dark Elegies (Tudor).
After a performance of Don Quichotte (Nureyev), on 31 December 1998, she is named "Etoile".
CREATIONS AT THE OPERA She has since added to her repertoire: Capriccio/Rubis, Symphonie en ut, Violin Concerto, Concerto Barocco, Agon (Balanchine), Giselle (afterCoralli and Perrot and in the version by Mats Ek), La Sylphide (Lacotte after Taglioni), Paquita (Lacotte after Mazilier and Petipa), Suite en blanc, Les Mirages (Lifar), Sylvia, Le Songe d’une nuit d’ete (Neumeier), Sleeping Beauty, Cendrillon, Nikiya in La Bayadere, Romeo et Juliette, Swan Lake (Nureyev), Carmen (Petit), Le Parc (Preljocaj), In The Night, En Sol, Dances at a Gathering (Robbins).
PRIZES 1992. Awarded the Gold Medal at the Varna Competition (junior category). 1993: Prix du public/AROP. 2001: Benois de la danse. Chevalier des Arts et Lettres
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