Agnès Letestu

• Born around 1971.
  Studies: Paris Opera Dance School.

  Company: Paris Opera Ballet since 1987; première danseuse after december 1993, and étoile since october 1997.

  She won the golden medal of the Eurovision Dance Prize in 1989, and the gold medal of the Varna dance competition in 1990.

  Premieres at the Paris Opera:

  • Debussy pour sept danseurs (Petit)- 1990 World premiere
  • Attentat poétique (Daniel Larrieu)- 1992 World premiere
  • Les demoiselles d'Avignon (Florence Lambert)- 1993 World premiere
  • Passacaille (Petit)- 1994 World premiere
  • IXth Symphony (Béjart)- 1996
  • Pas/.parts (William Forsythe)- 1999, world premiere
  • Le rire de la lyre (José Montalvo)- 1999 World premiere
  • Jewels (Balanchine)- 2000

  
  

  And among her roles of soloist:

  • In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated (Forsythe)
  • Etudes (Lander)
  • Gamzatti in La Bayadère (Petipa/ Nureyev)
  • Palais de Cristal (Balanchine)
  • Glass Pieces (Robbins)
  • Serenade (Balanchine)
  • Le Jeune homme et la Mort (Petit)
  • Bathilde/ Myrtha in Mats Ek's Giselle
  • Odette/ Odile in Swan Lake
  • Terpsichore in Apollo
  • The pas de deux in Agon

  Her favorite partner is José Martinez.

  In the 1997-98 season, she danced (uncomplete list):
  Raymonda, Giselle, Vaslaw, Don Quichotte, Grand pas classique, Swan Lake, Les variations d'Ulysse.

  In the 1998-99 season, she danced (uncomplete list):
  Crescent Moon in Graham's Temptations of the Moon, La Bayadère, Don Quichotte, Concerto Barocco, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, Pas/.parts, Swan Lake.

  In the 1999-2000 season, she danced (uncomplete list):
  Swan Lake, Le rire de la lyre, The Sleeping Beauty.

  In the 2000-2001 season, she danced (uncomplete list):
  Apollo (Terpsichore), the Forsythe program, Jewels (Diamonds).