Charles Jude

• Born in 1953 in Vietnam.
  Studies: Nice Conservatoire.

  Company: Paris Opera Ballet since 1972, sujet in 1975, premier danseur in 1977, étoile since 1977.

  He won the Lifar prize in 1988.

  He is married with Florence Clerc (étoile of the P.O.B. until 1991) and has two daughters.

  He leads the Ballet of Bordeaux since september 1996.
  

  Premieres at the Paris Opera:

  • Raymonda (version Nureyev)- 1983, World premiere.
  • Before Nightfall (Christe)- 1985
  • Shadowplay ( Tudor )- 1985
  • Swan Lake (production of Nureyev)- 1985
  • Washington Square (Nureyev)- 1985, World premiere.
  • Cinderella (Nureyev)- 1986, World premiere.
  • Magnificat (Neumeier)- 1987, World premiere.
  • The Moor's Pavane (Limon)- 1987
  • Sinfonietta (Kylian)- 1989

  
  

  And among his best roles:

  Siegfried in Swan Lake, Désiré in The Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, The Prodigal Son , Serenade, the Flegmatic in The Four Temperaments ( Balanchine ), Icare and Suite en blanc (Lifar), the faun in Afternoon of a Faun ( Nijinski ), Coppélius in Coppélia (production of Patrice Bart)...

  Among his favorite partners:

  Florence Clerc, Sylvie Guillem, Elisabeth Platel...
  

  In the 1995-96 season he danced (as far as I know):

  Romeo and Juliet (role of Tybalt), Serenade, Coppélia (role of Coppelius).

  In 1996-97, he danced in (uncomplete list):

  Aureole, Suite en Blanc, Apollo, Violin concerto (?), Serenade.

  In 1997-98, he danced in (uncomplete list):
  Swan Lake, Giselle, Afternoon of a faun, perhaps Raymonda, perhaps Les Sylphides, Romeo and Juliet.

  He was filmed in:

  Petrouchka (role of the Moor, around 1975), Cinderella (role of the Prince, around 1988), Afternoon of a Faun (around 1990), Romeo and Juliet (role of Tybalt, 1995).

  The page of Greg Fight includes some nice photos of him in Apollo.