Roland Petit
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Roland Petit (January 13, 1924 - July 10, 2011) was a French choreographer and dancer born in Villemomble near Paris, France. He trained at the Paris Opéra Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets.
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Personal life
He married Zizi Jeanmaire in 1954, a performer in a number of his works. His memoirs were published in 1993, J'ai dansé sur les flots (English: I Danced on the Waves). In 1947 his mother, Rose Repetto, founded the world-known ballet shoe company, Repetto.
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Ballets
From 1942 to 2008 Roland Petit has created 176 choregraphies including :
- Guernica (1945)
- Le jeune homme et la mort (1946)
- Les forains (1948)
- Carmen (1949)
- Ballabile (1950)
- Le loup (1953)
- Notre-Dame de Paris (1965)
- Paradise Lost (1967)
- Kraanerg (1969)
- Roland Petit Ballet (1973)
- Proust, ou Les intermittences du coeur (1974)
- Coppélia (1975)
- La symphonie fantastique (1975)
- Le fantôme de l’Opéra (1980)
- Les amours de Frantz (1981)
- The Blue Angel (1985)
- Clavigo (1999)
- Les chemins de la création (2004)
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