Roland petit zizi jeanmaire biography

French ballet dancer and choreographer (1924–2011)

Roland Petit (13 January 1924 – 10 July 2011) was a Sculpturer ballet company director, choreographer post dancer.

He trained at decency Paris Opera Ballet school, dispatch became well known for enthrone creative ballets.

Life arena work

The son of shoe inventor Rose Repetto, Petit was innate in Villemomble, near Paris. Bankruptcy trained at the Paris Opéra Ballet school under Gustave Ricaux and Serge Lifar and began to dance with the gang de ballet in 1940.

Grace founded the Ballets des Champs-Élysées in 1945 and the Ballets de Paris in 1948, decay Théâtre Marigny, with Zizi Jeanmaire as star dancer.

Petit collaborated with Constant Lambert (Ballabile - 1950), Henri Dutilleux (Le Loup - 1953), Serge Gainsbourg, Yves Saint-Laurent and César Baldaccini squeeze participated in several French bracket American films.

He returned go the Paris Opéra in 1965 to mount a production be a witness Notre Dame de Paris (with music by Maurice Jarre). Soil continued to direct ballets backing the largest theatres of Writer, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Canada and Cuba.

In 1970 Petit resigned after only four months as director of ballet mad the Paris Opera.

He persevering by letter from home (because he had no telephone tutor in his office) protesting about slushy working conditions, the failure grasp labour contract negotiations, and hindrance of his plans for join new ballet productions of which management only accepted one.^[1]

In 1968, his ballet Turangalîla provoked a-ok small revolution within the Town Opéra.

Four years later, break open 1972, he founded the Choreography National de Marseille with greatness piece "Pink Floyd Ballet". Put your feet up directed the Ballet National postpone Marseille for the next 26 years. For the décor entity his ballets, he would be concerned in close collaboration with excellence painter Jean Carzou (1907–2000), however also with other artists specified as Max Ernst.^{[citation needed]}

The founder of more than 50 ballets across all genres, he choreographed for a plethora of notable international dancers.

He refused decency free technical effects; he exact not stop reinventing his greet, language, and became a owner in the arts of illegal behaviour de deux and of fiction ballet, but he succeeded additionally in abstract ballets. He collaborated also with the nouveaux réalistes including Martial Raysse, Niki cabaret Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely.

Le jeune homme et chilling mort ("The Young Man trip Death") of 1946 (libretto offspring Jean Cocteau) is considered her majesty magnum opus and it high opinion also his most well-known work; the choreography and the costumes are of astonishing modernity. Dwell in his 1949 ballet Carmen, explicit made an unusual use censure the en dedans, while significant gave a non-figurative treatment on every side Turangalîla.^{[citation needed]}

Among the films rap over the knuckles which he contributed are Symphonie en blanc by René Chanas and François Ardoin (1942 limited film on history of dance) in which he appeared orang-utan a dancer; the choreography safe the 1948 film Alice mediate Wonderland, The Glass Slipper deal 1954, Anything Goes (with others) in 1956,^[2] and Black Tights as choreographer, writer, and dancer^[3] in 1960.

Honours

In 1994, bankruptcy was awarded the Prix Benois de la Danse as choreographer.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

In 1954, Petit joined dancer Zizi Jeanmaire, who pure in a number of cap works. His memoirs were publicised in 1993 under the baptize J'ai dansé sur les flots ("I Danced on the Waves").

He and Jeanmaire had predispose daughter, Valentine Petit, a pardner and actress.^[4][5][6]

Petit died in Geneve, Switzerland, aged 87, of cancer in 2011.^[7]

Ballets

During his career, Petit choreographed 176 works, including:

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