Tiziana Lauri, Rome Opera Ballet's talented première danseuse – DANCE MAGAZINE, April 1987.
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Prevost retired as première danseuse in 1730, being replaced by her students.
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Myriam Ould-Braham (born January 1982) is a French ballet dancer. After joining the Paris Opera Ballet in 1999, she became a première danseuse (principal) in 2005 and was elevated to the rank of étoile (star) in 2012.
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Pierina Legnani photographed during her tour of London, 1891. Written on the photo is "Signorina Pierina Legnani, Première danseuse assoluta". Pierina Legnani (September 30, 1868 – November 15, 1930) was an Italian ballerina considered one of the greatest ballerinas of all time.
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Pierina Legnani the first ballerina ever to be titled prima ballerina assoluta photographed during her tour of London, 1891. Written on the photo is Signorina Pierina Legnani, Première danseuse assoluta. 15-9-91 London. Prima ballerina assoluta is a title awarded to the most notable of female ballet dancers.
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Marjorie Tallchief (born October 19, 1926) is a former ballerina of the Osage Nation. She is the younger sister of the late prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief, and was the first Native American to be named "première danseuse étoile" in the Paris Opera Ballet.Short, Candy Franklin. Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.
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Gillan, Don. "The Beauty of Bath". StageBeauty.net, accessed 5 August 2010 In 1907–08 she became the première danseuse for the ballets at the Empire Theatre, appearing first as Stella Dare in a revised version of C. Wilhelm's ballet divertissement, The Belle of the Ball, in the role created by the departing Adeline Genée. The Times found her promising.
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Colasante was born in Paris to a ballet teacher mother and jazz pianist father, both originally from Italy. She entered the Paris Opera Ballet School in 1998 and entered the Paris Opera Ballet in 2006, at the age of 17. Colasante was promoted to Coryphée in 2010 and sujet the following year. She was named Première danseuse in 2013.
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In 2012, she was promoted to principal (première danseuse), performing the roles of Kitri in Nureyev's Don Quixote and the Mistress of Lescaut in Kenneth MacMillan's L'histoire de Manon. In December 2013, she was elevated to the rank of star (danseuse étoile) after dancing the main female role for the first time in Preljocaj's Le Parc.
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The following year she was promoted to coryphée. In 1978 she became sujet and danced her first soloist roles in ballets by George Balanchine, Divertimento No. 15 and The Four Temperaments. In 1979, at nineteen, she was appointed première danseuse. In 1981 Platel started to prepare her first great classical ballet, La Sylphide with Pierre Lacotte, her former teacher.
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She was trained by Aurélie Dupont for her coryphée exam. Benjamin Millepied became the artistic director later that year, and Baulac was immediately casted in The Nutcracker. She was promoted to sujet in 2015 and première danseuse a year later. In 2016, Baulac was assigned to understudy Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, and replaced an injured dancer on 31 December.
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Gillot was promoted to sujet in 1994. In 1999, she was named première danseuse. She stayed in that position for five years, but had danced lead roles including the title role in Paquita and Odette/Odile in Swan Lake. Initially, Gillot wasn't interested in contemporary roles, but choreographers, including William Forsythe and Mats Ek created roles for her when she wasn't cast in classical roles.
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Rosina Galli Rosina Galli (1892 – April 30, 1940) was an Italian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet mistress, and dance teacher. After early years in Italy, she moved to the US, where she was associated with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Prima ballerina at La Scala Theatre Ballet, and the Chicago Ballet, she was also the première danseuse at the Teatro di San Carlo and the Metropolitan Opera.
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At the age of 10, she was offered to a Monsieur V. and the Comédie de Marseille. Her mother died two years later and Marie became a première danseuse (first dancer) of the Lyon opera. By the age of 14, she was employed at the Comédie-Française and lived in a small apartment in Paris. Shortly after beginning her studies with balletmaster Gaétan Vestris, she became his lover.
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It was from Petipa himself that Pavlova learned the title role in Paquita, Princess Aspicia in The Pharaoh's Daughter, Queen Nisia in Le Roi Candaule, and Giselle. She was named danseuse in 1902, première danseuse in 1905, and, finally, prima ballerina in 1906 after a resounding performance in Giselle. Petipa revised many grand pas for her, as well as many supplemental variations. She was much celebrated by the fanatical balletomanes of Tsarist Saint Petersburg, her legions of fans calling themselves the Pavlovatzi.
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Although Mathilde Froustey appeared on stage in leading roles with the Paris Opera Ballet as of 2006, particularly as Kitri in Don Quixote, she was not promoted to "Première Danseuse", first soloist, with this company. Not even the artistic director, Brigitte Lefèvre, could explain why the jury consistently didn’t vote for her. Some ventured that her style was too extroverted and virtuosic for Paris, where restraint and purity are valued.Time to Shine, article by Laura Capelle, 28 March 2014, Pointe.
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Ciaravola became a member of the Paris Opera Ballet in 1990, only the second Corsican to do so, after Marie-Claude Pietragalla. It was quite some time before her talents were fully recognized. Only in 2003 did she become a première danseuse which allowed her to dance as a leading soloist, with opportunities for deciding which works she wanted to pursue. Among her preferences were Roland Petit's Clavigo, John Neumeier's Lady of the Camellias and Troisième Symphonie de Gustav Mahler, and Kenneth MacMillan's L'Histoire de Manon.
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She decided to start ballet when she saw her first ballet on TV (Swan Lake). Then she had the opportunity to start ballet as a hobby, and her teacher, Mr. Bertin, persuaded her to audition for the Opéra Ballet School which she joined when she was 10. She was a shy but graceful pupil and was destined to be at the top of the company. Agnes entered the Paris Opera Ballet company in 1987 at the age of 16, became Coryphée in 1988, Sujet in 1989 and première danseuse in 1993.
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Aurélie Dupont (born 15 January 1973 in Paris) is a French ballet dancer who performed 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.
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Ould-Braham joined the Paris Opera Ballet in 2001. She was soon selected to take part in Roland Petit's Les Forains, to dance Aurore in The Sleeping Beauty and the Pas de Deux in the Coralli/Perrot version of Giselle. After being promoted to première danseuse in 2005, her repertoire included Lise in Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée, Calliope in George Balanchine's Apollo, and Naïla in Jean-Guillaume Bart's La Source. She has also enjoyed the role of Manon in Kenneth MacMillan's L'histoire de Manon as well as the Neo-Classical ballets of William Forsythe and Wayne McGregor.
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Paul and Madame Anatole in Astolphe et Joconde (1827) Constance-Hippolyte Gosselin (2 January 1793, in Paris - date of death unknown) was a French ballet dancer. The daughter of a dancing master and younger sister of the dancer Geneviève Gosselin, Constance débuted at the Opéra de Paris in 1810, after studying dance under Louis Duport and Jean-François Coulon. She married Auguste-Anatole Petit in 1815 and was thus also known as Madame Anatole. Made première danseuse in 1822, her principal partner was Paul DeSchkane [Family name], with whom she made a triumphal tour to London in 1822.
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Madame Montessu (engraving by Vigneron, 1825) Pauline-Euphrosine Paul (5 June 1803, in Marseille – 1 August 1877, in Amiens) was a French ballet dancer. She married the dancer Laurent-François-Alexandre Montessu in 1821 and was thus also known as Madame Montessu. She was the sister and student of the noted dancer Paul before being admitted to the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, where she débuted on 17 July 1820 beside him. She was première danseuse until 1836, when she retired, although she continued to put on productions here and there, notably at Amsterdam in 1840, with André Isidore Carey.
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After that, with the help of Aurélie Dupont (training with dancers of higher ranks is a common practice at POB), she moved up the ranks through competing in the concours de promotion, eventually reaching the second-to highest rank, première danseuse, at the age of 26. Also in 2009, she received the Konex Award in the category "classical music". In March 2012, there was a planned performance and cinema relay of Rudolf Nureyev's La Bayadère, but both Dorothée Gilbert, who had been cast for Gamzatti, and the understudy were injured. Pagliero, who had bot performed the role in two years was asked to step in, and only had a quick rehearsal with Josua Hoffalt (Solor) and Dupont (Nikiya).
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