Laurent Hilaire

Laurent Hilaire in In the Middle, Somewhat elevated, with Sylvie Guillem.

This photograph comes from Jim Fowler's Sylvie Guillem page, click here to get a bigger photograph.

• Born in 1962.
  
• Studies: Paris Opera Dance School.
  
• Company: Paris Opera Ballet since 1980, sujet in 1983, étoile since 1985.
• Premieres at the Paris Opera:
  • Lilac Garden (Tudor)- 1985
  • Before Nightfall (Nils Christe)- 1985, World premiere.
  • Symphony in 3 movements ( Balanchine )- 1987
  • In the Middle, Somewhat elevated (Forsythe)- 1987, world premiere.
  • Four last lieder (Van Dantzig)- 1987
  • Tantz-Schul (Kylian)- 1989
  • In the Night (Robbins)- 1989
  • Carmen (Petit)- 1990
  • La Bayadère (version Nureyev)- 1992
  • Le Parc (Preljocaj)- 1994, world premiere.
  • IXth Symphony (Béjart)- 1996
  • Musings (Kudelka)- 1997
  • Casanova (Preljocaj)- 1998, world premiere
  • Woundwork I (Forsythe)- 1999, world premiere
  • Le rire de la lyre (Montalvo)- 1999, world premiere
  
  
• He also premiered Béjart's Episodes with Sylvie Guillem.
• Among his best roles: Albrecht in Giselle , Désiré in Sleeping Beauty, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (prod. of Nureyev), Etudes (Lander), Sonate à Trois and Episodes (Béjart), Theme and Variations ( Balanchine), En Sol (In G Major) and Dances at a gathering (Robbins), Song of the Earth (Mac Millan)...

• Among his favorite partners:
  Isabelle Guérin, Sylvie Guillem , Elisabeth Platel...
  
  
• In the 1995-96 season, he danced:
  Romeo and Juliet (as Romeo), La Bayadère (as Solor), Theme and Variations, Le Parc, En Sol (In G Major), maybe The Four Seasons, IXth Symphony.
  
  

• In the 1996-97 season, he danced (uncomplete list):
  Notre-Dame de Paris (as Frollo), Fall River Legend, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Musings, La Sylphide, Dark Elegies.
  

• In the 1997-98 season, he danced (uncomplete list):
  Swan Lake, Giselle, Don Quichotte, Romeo and Juliet, L'Histoire de Manon, Raymonda, Petrouchka, Casanova.

• In the 1998-99 season, he danced (uncomplete list):
  Don Quichotte, La Bayadère, In the Night, Apollo, Swan Lake.

• In the 1999-99 season, he danced/will dance (uncomplete list):
  Le rire de la lyre, Sleeping Beauty.

• He was filmed in:
  The Nutcracker (Nureyev after Petipa- as Frantz, around 1986), La Bayadère (Nureyev after Petipa- as Solor, in 1995), Notre-Dame de Paris (Petit- as Frollo, in 1996).