#TBT Video: Isabelle Guérin in "La Bayadère"

November 28, 2001

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 slow, mournful pace of Nikiya’s death scene from La Bayadère lets us luxuriate in her flawless lines. Here’s a recording of that solo from a 1994 performance in Paris. Happy #ThrowbackThursday!