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Laurent Hilaire

Laurent Hilaire (born 8 November 1962) is a French ballet dancer. Regarded as one of the greatest dancers to emerge from ballet over the past few decades, he was an étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet for 22 years. From 2011, he was the associate artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet and a ballet master with the company from 2005 to 2014. In 2017, he became the director of dance at Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre. He resigned in February 2022 over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In May, he was appointed the new director at Bavarian State Ballet. Hilaire joined the Paris Opera Ballet school in 1975 and entered the company's corps de ballet in 1979, aged 17. On 2 November 1985, he was promoted to etoile (a top-billing principal dancer) by Rudolf Nureyev after a performance of Swan Lake. Laurent Hilaire became a ballet master with the company in 2005, occasionally performing as an etoile until he made his farewell performance on 14 February 2007. For it he performed George Balanchine's Apollo and Maurice Béjart's Song of A Wayfarer, in which he was partnered by Manuel Legris. After his farewell performance Hilaire was awarded Commander of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the highest rank of the order. Source: Article "Laurent Hilaire" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.


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Born:
Nov 8, 1962 In Paris, France
Movie/TV Credits:
5
First Appeared:
In the series Champs-Elysées 1982-01-16
Latest Project:
Movie La Bayadère 2010-10-01
Known For
Poster of La Bayadère
Poster of Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness
Poster of The Nutcracker
Poster of Champs-Elysées
Filmography
Movie La Bayadère Solor 2010-10-01
Movie Chance or Coincidence Laurent 1998-11-18
Movie Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness Self 1997-01-01
Movie The Nutcracker Herr Drosselmeyer/The Prince 1989-01-01
Series Champs-Elysées Self 1982-01-16