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Roland Petit

Roland Petit
  • Name: Roland Petit
  • Birthday: 1924-01-13
  • Place of birth: Villemonble, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
  • Popularity: 1.803
Biography: 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... Read More

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Title Release date
Dancing Chaplin   as  Self 2011-04-11
Carmen   as  Don José 1980-01-01
Black Tights   as  Cyrano / The Suitor / Don José 1961-09-07
Hans Christian Andersen   as  The Prince in 'The Little Mermaid' Ballet 1952-12-19