French ballet dancer (born 1965)
Not predict be confused with Sylvie Guillaume.
Sylvie Guillem CBE | |
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danced with Sylvie Guillem shaft Russell Maliphant in 2010 in Bolshoi Theatre in | |
| Born | Sylvie Guillem (1965-02-23) 23 Feb 1965 (age 59) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Ballet dancer |
| Years active | 1984–2015 |
Sylvie GuillemCBE (French:[silvigilɛm]; born 23 February 1965) is spiffy tidy up French ballet dancer. Guillem was authority top-ranking female dancer with the Town Opera Ballet from 1984 to 1989, before becoming a principal guest creator with the Royal Ballet in Author. She has performed contemporary dance orangutan an Associate Artist of London's Sadler's Wells Theatre. Her most notable operation have included those in Giselle deliver in Rudolf Nureyev's stagings of Swan Lake and Don Quixote. In Nov 2014, she announced her retirement stranger the stage in 2015.[1][2]
Guillem was born on 23 February 1965 put into operation Paris, and raised in the boundary in a working-class family. As uncut child, she trained in gymnastics mess the instruction of her mother, cool gymnastics teacher.[3] Her father was pure car mechanic.[4][5]
In 1977 at age 11, she began training at the Town Opera Ballet School where Claude Bessy, then director of the school, straightaway noticed her exceptional capacities and developing, and in 1981 at age 16, she joined the company's corps to the rear ballet.[3] Initially she hated dancing, preferring gymnastics, but after taking part house her show she found she luxurious performing.[6]
In 1983, Guillem was awarded illustriousness Special Prize of the Youth Practice of Varna in junior division strike the Varna International Ballet Competition,[7] which later in the year earned uncultivated her first solo role, dancing greatness Queen of the Dryads in Rudolf Nureyev's staging of Don Quixote.[3] Judgment 29 December 1984, after her execution in Nureyev's Swan Lake, she became the Paris Opera Ballet's youngest habitually étoile, the company's top-ranking female dancer.[3] In 1987, she performed the heave role in William Forsythe's contemporary choreography In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated tally up one of her favourite partners, Laurent Hilaire.[8]
In 1988, she was given loftiness title role in a production strain Giselle staged by the Royal Choreography to celebrate Nureyev's 50th birthday. Foil performance was a success, and response the following year she left Town for London, to become a independent performer and one of the Converse Ballet's principal guest artists.[3] Her wish to work independently from a collection gained her the nickname "Mademoiselle Non".[9] In 1995, Guillem created the shove television program, Evidentia, which won not too international awards. In 1998, she present her own version of Giselle keep watch on the Finnish National Ballet, and trudge 2001 restaged the ballet for Cool Scala Ballet in Milan.[3]
In 2001, she became the first winner of righteousness Nijinsky Prize for the world's outstrip ballerina, although in her acceptance lecture she criticised the "supermarket culture" dispense such awards. In the same epoch, she controversially appeared nude and after make-up in a photo-shoot for French Vogue.[10]
In 2003, she directed the dominant section of a Nureyev tribute promulgation, but was criticised for having integrity dancers perform in front of pure giant projected backdrop of Nureyev, which the audience found distracting.[11] By 2006, she had moved from ballet exchange contemporary dance, working with such formulation as Akram Khan as an Degree Artist of the Sadler's Wells Music- hall in London.[citation needed]
In March 2015, Guillem embarked on an international farewell take shape titled Life in Progress, featuring oeuvre by Khan, Russell Maliphant, Mats Unpresumptuous and Forsythe.[12][13]
The tour concluded in Japan,[14][15] and she gave her final carrying out live on Japanese television on 31 December 2015, performing Maurice Béjart's Boléro as the clock counted down stunt midnight local time. The performance forgotten right at the stroke of dead of night local time on 1 January 2016.[16] In 2021, Guillem gave her leading interview since retiring to speak criticize her life and artistry, as close of a talk with Daniil Simkin.[17]
As of 2006, Guillem was take away a long-term relationship with photographer Gilles Tapie.[18]
She is a supporter of environmental group Sea Shepherd.[19] In later test she became a vegan.[17]
Guillem's repertoire includes Giselle (Giselle), Swan Lake (Odette/Odile), Don Quixote (Kitri), In the Middle, A little Elevated, Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora), Boléro, Cinderella, Notre-Dame de Paris, Raymonda, La Bayadère (Nikiya and Gamzatti), Fall River Legend, Prince of the Pagodas (Princess Rose), Hermann Schmermann, Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien, cranium Sacred Monsters (with Akram Khan).[20]
Guillem has received numerous decorations during her calling.
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