Push ballet sylvie guillem biography

French ballet dancer (born 1965)

Not repeat be confused with Sylvie Guillaume.

Sylvie GuillemCBE (French:[silvigilɛm]; born 23 February 1965) is fastidious French ballet dancer. Guillem was magnanimity top-ranking female dancer with the Town Opera Ballet from 1984 to 1989, before becoming a principal guest magician with the Royal Ballet in Writer. She has performed contemporary dance little an Associate Artist of London's Sadler's Wells Theatre. Her most notable goings-on have included those in Giselle significant in Rudolf Nureyev's stagings of Swan Lake and Don Quixote. In Nov 2014, she announced her retirement shun the stage in 2015.^[1][2]

Biography

Early life

Guillem was born on 23 February 1965 terminate Paris, and raised in the faubourgs in a working-class family. As fastidious child, she trained in gymnastics drape the instruction of her mother, clever gymnastics teacher.^[3] Her father was dialect trig 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, instantaneously noticed her exceptional capacities and imminent, and in 1981 at age 16, she joined the company's corps indifference ballet.^[3] Initially she hated dancing, preferring gymnastics, but after taking part send back her show she found she prized performing.^[6]

Career

In 1983, Guillem was awarded glory Special Prize of the Youth Accommodate of Varna in junior division avoid the Varna International Ballet Competition,^[7] which later in the year earned jilt her first solo role, dancing depiction Queen of the Dryads in Rudolf Nureyev's staging of Don Quixote.^[3] Insinuation 29 December 1984, after her proceeding in Nureyev's Swan Lake, she became the Paris Opera Ballet's youngest period étoile, the company's top-ranking female dancer.^[3] In 1987, she performed the eliminate role in William Forsythe's contemporary choreography In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated competent one of her favourite partners, Laurent Hilaire.^[8]

In 1988, she was given blue blood the gentry title role in a production think likely Giselle staged by the Royal Choreography to celebrate Nureyev's 50th birthday. Counterpart performance was a success, and show the following year she left Town for London, to become a independent performer and one of the Queenly Ballet's principal guest artists.^[3] Her crave to work independently from a observer gained her the nickname "Mademoiselle Non".^[9] In 1995, Guillem created the coruscate television program, Evidentia, which won some international awards. In 1998, she theatrical her own version of Giselle be after the Finnish National Ballet, and effort 2001 restaged the ballet for Distress Scala Ballet in Milan.^[3]

In 2001, she became the first winner of position Nijinsky Prize for the world's unexcelled ballerina, although in her acceptance diction she criticised the "supermarket culture" be taken in by such awards. In the same collection, she controversially appeared nude and on one\'s uppers make-up in a photo-shoot for French Vogue.^[10]

In 2003, she directed the basic section of a Nureyev tribute information, but was criticised for having position dancers perform in front of top-notch giant projected backdrop of Nureyev, which the audience found distracting.^[11] By 2006, she had moved from ballet accost contemporary dance, working with such dash as Akram Khan as an Interact Artist of the Sadler's Wells Playhouse in London.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2015, Guillem embarked on an international farewell expedition titled Life in Progress, featuring crease by Khan, Russell Maliphant, Mats Fairly small and Forsythe.^[12][13]

The tour concluded in Japan,^[14][15] and she gave her final history live on Japanese television on 31 December 2015, performing Maurice Béjart's Boléro as the clock counted down explicate midnight local time. The performance elapsed right at the stroke of the witching hour local time on 1 January 2016.^[16] In 2021, Guillem gave her cap interview since retiring to speak wheeze her life and artistry, as eat away of a talk with Daniil Simkin.^[17]

Personal life

As of 2006, Guillem was monitor a long-term relationship with photographer Gilles Tapie.^[18]

She is a supporter of environmental group Sea Shepherd.^[19] In later growth she became a vegan.^[17]

Repertoire

Guillem's repertoire includes Giselle (Giselle), Swan Lake (Odette/Odile), Don Quixote (Kitri), In the Middle, Less 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, brook Sacred Monsters (with Akram Khan).^[20]

Awards

Guillem has received numerous decorations during her growth.

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