Nicolas Le Riche
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100% La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet...and Marc Chagall ceiling. LA DANSE devotes most of its time to watching impossibly beautiful young men and women - among them Nicolas Le Riche, Marie-Agnes Gillot, and Agnes Letestu - rehearsing the choreography of Mats Ek, Wayne McGregor,... In this article: Ballet, Frederick Wiseman, Paris, Palais Garnier, Nicolas Le Riche, Wayne McGregor, Mats Ek, Pina Bausch, and Rudolf Nureyev |
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Wikipedia | May 16, 2009
Elisabeth Platel
...female etoiles to retire at 40 (male etoiles retire at 45). For the occasion she performed with two of her favourite partners, Nicolas Le Riche and Manuel Legris, who danced the role of James Act I and II respectively. Elisabeth Platel...
In this article: Elisabeth Platel, Rudolf Nureyev, La Sylphide, Swan Lake, George Balanchine, Marie Taglioni, The Four Temperaments, Raymonda, and Giselle
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Wikipedia | December 28, 2008
Nicolas Le Riche
Nicolas Le Riche is a French ballet dancer born 1972 in Sartrouvilles, Yvelines. He entered the Paris Opera Ballet school at age ten and joined the corps de ballet six years later; his first role was in Gsovsky's Grand Pas Classique. He was...
In this article: A Suite of Dances and Jerome Robbins
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New York Post: Entertainment | June 19, 2008
VET DANCER SAYS ADIEU, WHILE NEWBIE MAKES DEBUT - New York Post
...maturity. Meanwhile, New York City Ballet's Robbins Festival continues apace with the debut Tuesday of France's Nicolas Le Riche as guest artist in Robbins' marvelous Bach solo "A Suite of Dances." By turn playful and moody, witty...
In this article: Lincoln Center, Damian Woetzel, Jerome Robbins, New York Post, New York State Theater, Metropolitan Opera House, and New York City
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New York Times | June 16, 2008
Dance Review - New York City Ballet: The Jerome Robbins Touch: Playful as a Somersault or Ethereal as Glass
...performed "2 & 3 Part Inventions"; in 1994, Robbins created the ballet for an earlier generation of dancers from the school. And Nicolas Le Riche, from the Paris Opera Ballet, delivered his own enchanting interpretation of "A Suite of...
In this article: Philip Glass, Jerome Robbins, A Suite of Dances, 2 & 3 Part Inventions, School of American Ballet, Wendy Whelan, and New York State Theater
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La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet: movie review
...dancers, something ineffable hangs in the air. The greatest of these dancers, including Agnes Letestu, Mathieu Ganio, Nicolas Le Riche, and Marie-Agnes Gillot, seem possessed by their gifts. Dancing doesn't merely complete them. Dancing is...
In this article: Fred Wiseman, E-mail, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Fred Astaire, and Gene Kelly
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New York Times | September 19, 2008
Dance: A Survivor of Parisian Storms
A Survivor of Parisian Storms Nicolas Le Riche and Marie-Agnes Gillot in Kader Belarbi s Wuthering Heights, a 2005 production staged at the Paris Opera Ballet under Brigitte Lefevre. IN September 1992 both Brigitte Lefevre and I began...
In this article: Palais Garnier, Rudolf Nureyev, and Benjamin Millepied
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New York Post: Entertainment | May 01, 2009
BROWN TROUPE IN THE PINK
...to this decade. In 2004, Brown created "O zlozony/O composite" on three stars of the Paris Opera Ballet, setting Manuel Legris, Nicolas Le Riche and Aurelie Dupont -- among the best-trained dancers in the world -- slowly turning against a...
In this article: Trisha Brown, Opera House, Robert Rauschenberg, and Judson Church
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Nicolas Le Riche is a French ballet dancer born 1972 in Sartrouvilles, Yvelines. He entered the Paris Opera Ballet school at age ten and joined the corps de ballet six years later; his first ròle was in Gsovsky's Grand Pas Classique. He was promoted to sujet in 1990 and premier danseur in 1991. Balletmaster Rudolf Nureyev cast him as Mercutio and subsequently Romeo in his version of Romeo and Juliet; he then performed in Nijinska's Le Train Bleu, in Robbins' In the Night, Neumeier's Vaslaw, Lander's Etudes, Nureyev's La Bayadere, Mats Ek's version of Giselle, and Petit's Le Jeune Homme et la Mort and Les Forains.
Le Riche was promoted to the Paris Opera Ballet's highest rank, that of étoile (literally, star), after his debut in the róle of Albrecht in the traditional version of Giselle; he is the recipient of the Prix Benois de la Danse, the Nijinsky Award, and is a Chevalier of Arts and Letters. He performed A Suite of Dances as guest artist at New York City Ballet's Jerome Robbins celebration in June 2008. As choreographer he has made ballets since 2001, including Caligula to Vivaldi's The Four Seasons in 2005.
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