Michaël Denard
- Born in november 1944 in Germany.
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- Company: Paris Opera Ballet
from 1965 to 1989, étoile from 1971 to 1989, director
of the Berlin Staatsoper between 1992 and 1996 (?).
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- He danced at the American Ballet Theare (summer seasons)
between 1972 and 1975, especially as Cynthia Gregory's partner.
- World premieres:
- Comme la Princesse Salomé est belle ce soir (Béjart, 1970)
- L'Oiseau de Feu
(The Firebird) (Béjart, 1970)- his very favorite role...
- La Sylphide (Lacotte after Taglioni, 1971)
- Un jour ou deux (Cunningham, 1973)
- Schéhérazade ( Petit , 1974)
- Les Intermittences du coeur (Proust remembered) ( Petit , 1975)
- La Symphonie fantastique ( Petit , 1975)
- Mad Rush (Lucinda Childs, c.1981)
- Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien (Bob Wilson, 1988)
- Ring um den ring (Béjart, 1989)
- Dix oder Eros und Tod ( Petit , 1993)
- Other premieres at the Paris Opera:
- Coppélia (Lacotte after Saint-Léon)- 1973
- Agon ( Balanchine )- 1974
- Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins)- c.1975
- Ivan the Terrible (Grigorovitch)- 1975
- Romeo and Juliet (Grigorovitch)- 1978
- Serait-ce la mort? (Béjart)- c.1979
- Romeo and Juliet (Cranko)- 1983
- Violin concerto ( Balanchine )- 1984
- Grande Fugue (Van Manen)- 1986
- Cinderella (version Nureyev)- 1986
- Sans armes, citoyens (Van Dantzig)- 1987 (World P.)
- Four last lieder (Van Dantzig)- 1987
- And among his best roles: Balanchine's
Apollo , Siegfried in
Swan Lake, Albrecht in Giselle , Othello in
The Moor's Pavane (Limon), Tudor's Lilac garden , Eros and Aminta in Sylvia (Saint-Léon, restaged by Darsonval), Aunis (Jacques Garnier)...
- His best partner was Ghislaine Thesmar, he also danced with
Natalia Makarova, Claire Motte, Cynthia Gregory,
Noëlla Pontois, Dominique Khalfouni,
Françoise Legrée , Sylvie
Guillem , Isabelle Guérin...
References:
- Michaël Denard, l'interprète et la création
(Claudine Guerrier, photographs by Colette Masson, Ed. Chiron)
- Michaël Denard
(Sylvia Chaban)
- Michaël Denard danse l'Oiseau de Feu
(text by ??, photographs by Francette Levieux)