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#TBT: Zizi Jeanmaire in Roland Petit's “Carmen” Variation (1961)

#TBT: Zizi Jeanmaire in Roland Petit's “Carmen” Variation (1961)

by Julia Guiheen | Aug 21, 2019 | TBT

Updated on 8/5/2020 French ballerina Zizi Jeanmaire first gained fame when she premiered the titular title role in Roland Petit’s Carmen in 1949, opposite Petit as Carmen’s lover Don José. With her famously cropped hair (and cropped tutu!),...
#TBT: Isabelle Guérin and Nicolas Le Riche in Notre Dame de Paris

#TBT: Isabelle Guérin and Nicolas Le Riche in Notre Dame de Paris

by Hannah 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...
#TBT: Isabelle Guérin and Nicolas Le Riche in Notre Dame de Paris

#TBT: Alessandra Ferri and Laurent Hilaire in Roland Petit's "Carmen"

by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life

Choreographer Roland Petit was for years the ballet world’s master of theatrical showmanship. Bolstered by rich, beautifully designed costumes and decor, his works oozed sensual style. Yet even stripped of all that pageantry, his choreography retains an electric...
#TBT: Isabelle Guérin and Nicolas Le Riche in Notre Dame de Paris

#TBT: Rudolf Nureyev and Zizi Jeanmaire in "Le Jeune Homme et la Mort" (1966)

by Pointe Magazine | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life

In English, “le jeune homme et la mort” translates to “the young man and death.” There’s no missing the somber tone in this clip of Roland Petit’s short ballet. As the young man, Rudolf Nureyev dances in a reverie to the melancholic...
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