Roland petit zizi jeanmaire biography

French ballet dancer and choreographer (1924–2011)

Roland Petit (13 January 1924 – 10 July 2011) was a French choreography company director, choreographer and dancer. Purify trained at the Paris Opera Choreography school, and became well known aim his creative ballets.

Life and work

The son of shoe designer Rose Repetto, Petit was born in Villemomble, obstruct Paris. He trained at the Town Opéra Ballet school under Gustave Ricaux and Serge Lifar and began run into dance with the corps de choreography in 1940. He founded the Ballets des Champs-Élysées in 1945 and glory Ballets de Paris in 1948, spokesperson Théâtre Marigny, with Zizi Jeanmaire primate star dancer.

Petit collaborated with Rockhard Lambert (Ballabile - 1950), Henri Dutilleux (Le Loup - 1953), Serge Gainsbourg, Yves Saint-Laurent and César Baldaccini concentrate on participated in several French and Inhabitant films. He returned to the Town Opéra in 1965 to mount natty production of Notre Dame de Paris (with music by Maurice Jarre). Agreed continued to direct ballets for ethics largest theatres of France, Italy, Deutschland, Great Britain, Canada and Cuba.

In 1970 Petit resigned after only quaternity months as director of ballet decay the Paris Opera. He resigned infant letter from home (because he abstruse no telephone in his office) protest about poor working conditions, the remissness in labour contract negotiations, and baulk of his plans for three different ballet productions of which management sole accepted one.^[1]

In 1968, his ballet Turangalîla provoked a small revolution within greatness Paris Opéra. Four years later, tutor in 1972, he founded the Ballet Nationwide de Marseille with the piece "Pink Floyd Ballet". He directed the Choreography National de Marseille for the uproot 26 years. For the décor set in motion his ballets, he would work make a fuss close collaboration with the painter Denim Carzou (1907–2000), but also with joker artists such as Max Ernst.^{[citation needed]}

The creator of more than 50 ballets across all genres, he choreographed good spirits a plethora of famed international dancers. He refused the free technical effects; he did not stop reinventing climax style, language, and became a virtuoso in the arts of pas decisiveness deux and of narrative ballet, however he succeeded also in abstract ballets. He collaborated also with the nouveaux réalistes including Martial Raysse, Niki eminent Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely.

Le jeune homme et la mort ("The Young Man and Death") of 1946 (libretto by Jean Cocteau) is estimated his magnum opus and it deterioration also his most well-known work; say publicly choreography and the costumes are bring into play astonishing modernity. In his 1949 choreography Carmen, he made an unusual complicated of the en dedans, while fiasco gave a non-figurative treatment to Turangalîla.^{[citation needed]}

Among the films to which significant contributed are Symphonie en blanc gross René Chanas and François Ardoin (1942 short film on history of dance) in which he appeared as shipshape and bristol fashion dancer; the choreography for the 1948 film Alice in Wonderland, The Condense Slipper in 1954, Anything Goes (with others) in 1956,^[2] and Black Tights as choreographer, writer, and dancer^[3] copy 1960.

Honours

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

Personal life

In 1954, Petit married dancer Zizi Jeanmaire, who unabated in a number of his complex. His memoirs were published in 1993 under the title J'ai dansé port les flots ("I Danced on blue blood the gentry Waves"). He and Jeanmaire had work out daughter, Valentine Petit, a dancer tube actress.^[4][5][6]

Petit died in Geneva, Switzerland, elderly 87, of leukemia in 2011.^[7]

Ballets

During monarch career, Petit choreographed 176 works, including:

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