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François Alu (born 1993 in Fussy) is a French ballet dancer. He danced with the Paris Opera Ballet as an étoile (star). [1] He entered the Paris Opera Ballet School in 2004, and the Paris Opera Ballet in 2010. At his first promotion competition in 2011, he was promoted to coryphée, then to sujet (semi-soloist) in 2013.
Individual judges scores in the chart below (given in parentheses) appeared in this order from left to right: Jean-Paul Gaultier, Denitsa Ikonomova, François Alu, Chris Marques. Each of the four judges have a golden buzzer, if all the four judges buzz for a couple then, that couple is directly qualified for week 3 without passing by the second ...
Danseur étoile (for men) or danseuse étoile (for women), literally "star dancer", is the highest rank a dancer can reach at the Paris Opera Ballet.It is equivalent to the title "Principal dancer" used in English or to the title "Primo Ballerino" or "Prima Ballerina" in Italian.
The participants of the season were officially announced by TF1 on September 10, 2013 through an online event, though they'd been gradually revealed by various media outlets between April 15 and August 23 and several celebrities had spoken freely of their participation in the press prior to the official reveal.
The Paris Opera Ballet has always been an integral part of the Paris Opera, which was founded in 1669 as the Académie d'Opéra (Academy of Opera), although theatrical dance did not become an important component of the Paris Opera until 1673, after it was renamed the Académie Royale de Musique (Royal Academy of Music) and placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully.
In 2018, Diop joined the Paris Opera Ballet. [4] [10] In September 2020, in response to the Paris Opera's inaction following the George Floyd protests, Diop, along with the four other black dancers of the company, wrote a manifesto titled "De la question raciale à l'Opéra de Paris", which questioned certain practices within the opera house and called for urgent changes to address racial ...
Perron comes from a family of dancers: The title of "Etoile" was created for his aunt Lycette Darsonval (Premiere Danseuse étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet who was in the original cast of "Symphony in C" by George Balanchine. His uncle Serge Perrault was a principal with Roland Petit and his mother was part of the Paris Opera Ballet.
Originally from Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme), [1] Elsa grew up in a family of dancers. Her mother, Laurie Bois, was a dancer herself. Today, she is a dance costume designer. It is therefore quite natural that Elsa took her first steps on the dance floor at the age of five [2] in Latin dance at the Artistique Rumba Club in Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme). [3]