Roland Petit

Roland Petit

Roland Petit (13 January 1924 – 10 July 2011) was a French ballet company director, choreographer and dancer. He trained at the Paris Opera Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets. The son of shoe designer Rose Repetto, Petit was born in Villemomble, near Paris. He trained at the Paris Opéra Ballet school under Gustave Ricaux and Serge Lifar and began to dance with the corps de ballet in 1940. He founded the Ballets des Champs-Élysées in 1945 and the Ballets de Paris in 1948, at Théâtre Marigny, with Zizi Jeanmaire as star dancer. Petit collaborated with Constant Lambert (Ballabile - 1950), Henri Dutilleux (Le Loup - 1953), Serge Gainsbourg, Yves Saint-Laurent and César Baldaccini and participated in several French and American films. He returned to the Paris Opéra in 1965 to mount a production of Notre Dame de Paris (with music by Maurice Jarre). He continued to direct ballets for the largest theatres of France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Canada and Cuba. In 1968, his ballet Turangalîla provoked a small revolution within the Paris Opéra. Four years later, in 1972, he founded the Ballet National de Marseille with the piece "Pink Floyd Ballet". He directed the Ballet National de Marseille for the next 26 years. For the décor of his ballets, he would work in close collaboration with the painter Jean Carzou (1907–2000), but also with other artists such as Max Ernst. The creator of more than 50 ballets across all genres, he choreographed for a plethora of famed international dancers. He refused the free technical effects; he did not stop reinventing his style, language, and became a master in the arts of pas de deux and of narrative ballet, but he succeeded also in abstract ballets. He collaborated also with the nouveaux réalistes including Martial Raysse, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely. Le jeune homme et la mort ("The Young Man and Death") of 1946 (libretto by Jean Cocteau) is considered his magnum opus and it is also his most well-known work; the choreography and the costumes are of astonishing modernity. In his 1949 ballet Carmen, he made an unusual use of the en dedans, while he gave a non-figurative treatment to Turangalîla. Among the films to which he contributed are Symphonie en blanc by René Chanas and François Ardoin (1942 short film on history of dance) in which he appeared as a dancer; the choreography for the 1948 film Alice in Wonderland, The Glass Slipper in 1954, Anything Goes (with others) in 1956, and Black Tights as choreographer, writer, and dancer in 1960. In 1994, he was awarded the Prix Benois de la Danse as choreographer. In 1954, Petit married dancer Zizi Jeanmaire, who performed in a number of his works. His memoirs were published in 1993 under the title J'ai dansé sur les flots ("I Danced on the Waves"). He and Jeanmaire had one daughter, Valentine Petit, a dancer and actress. Petit died in Geneva, Switzerland, aged 87, of leukemia in 2011. Source: Article "Roland Petit" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title : Roland Petit
  • Popularity : 1.111
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  • Birthday : 1924-01-13
  • Place of Birth : Villemonble, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
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Roland Petit Movies

  • 1952
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    Hans Christian Andersen

    Hans Christian Andersen

    6.2 1952 HD

    A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.

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  • 1961
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    Black Tights

    Black Tights

    6.2 1961 HD

    Lively scenes of Paris, all narrated by Maurice Chevalier, link together four dramatic ballet choreographies by Roland Petit: La Croqueuse de...

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  • 1980
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    Carmen

    Carmen

    1 1980 HD

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  • 2011
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    Dancing Chaplin

    Dancing Chaplin

    10 2011 HD

    The celebrated French choreographer Roland Petit had always had his eye on a film presentation of his ballet "Chaplin Dances", which premiered in...

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  • 2021
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    Notre-Dame de Paris (Opéra Bastille)

    Notre-Dame de Paris (Opéra Bastille)

    1 2021 HD

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  • 2021
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    Notre-Dame de Paris (Opéra Bastille)

    Notre-Dame de Paris (Opéra Bastille)

    1 2021 HD

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  • 2007
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    Proust ou les Intermittences du cœur

    Proust ou les Intermittences du cœur

    10 2007 HD

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  • 1952
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    Hans Christian Andersen

    Hans Christian Andersen

    6.2 1952 HD

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  • 2003
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    Il pipistrello (La Scala)

    Il pipistrello (La Scala)

    1 2003 HD

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  • 1961
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    Black Tights

    Black Tights

    6.2 1961 HD

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  • 1961
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    Black Tights

    Black Tights

    6.2 1961 HD

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  • 1999
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    Clavigo

    Clavigo

    1 1999 HD

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  • 1956
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    An Evening at the Music Hall

    An Evening at the Music Hall

    4.7 1956 HD

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  • 1980
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    Carmen

    Carmen

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1985
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    White Nights

    White Nights

    6.7 1985 HD

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  • 2011
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    Dancing Chaplin

    Dancing Chaplin

    10 2011 HD

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  • 2005
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    Le Jeune Homme et la Mort

    Le Jeune Homme et la Mort

    1 2005 HD

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  • 2005
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    Carmen - Roland Petit

    Carmen - Roland Petit

    1 2005 HD

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  • 1955
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    Daddy Long Legs

    Daddy Long Legs

    6.3 1955 HD

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  • 2005
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    Большой балет: Пиковая дама/Пассакалья

    Большой балет: Пиковая дама/Пассакалья

    1 2005 HD

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  • 2005
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    Большой балет: Пиковая дама/Пассакалья

    Большой балет: Пиковая дама/Пассакалья

    1 2005 HD

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  • 2013
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    La Scala Ballet: Notre-Dame de Paris

    La Scala Ballet: Notre-Dame de Paris

    1 2013 HD

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  • 1973
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    Pink Floyd Ballet

    Pink Floyd Ballet

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1949
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    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    5.5 1949 HD

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  • 1996
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    Eloge De La Folie

    Eloge De La Folie

    1 1996 HD

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.632 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1972
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    Le Grand Échiquier

    Le Grand Échiquier

    8 1972 HD

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  • 1972
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    Le Grand Échiquier

    Le Grand Échiquier

    8 1972 HD

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  • 1982
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    Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

    6.2 1982 HD

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  • 1971
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    Great Performances

    Great Performances

    5.2 1971 HD

    The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...

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  • 1971
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    Samedi soir

    Samedi soir

    6 1971 HD

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