by Hannah Chang Foster | Apr 20, 2016 | Company Life
I can’t decide what’s more impressive in this 1996 clip of Roland Petit’s Notre Dame de Paris. Is it the Frenchman’s choreography, which evokes the complex relationship between the gypsy-turned-damsel and her unlikely hero? Or is it the two...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
All the ballerinas of the Paris Opéra Ballet are renowned for their crystalline precision, honed in the company’s notoriously rigorous school. But Isabelle Guérin, an étoile with POB from 1983 to 2001, set an especially high standard for technical purity. The...