Aurelie Dupont
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Aurelie Dupont (born January 15, 1973 in Paris) is a French ballet dancer who performs with the Paris Opera Ballet as an etoile. She began her career in dance at the age of ten when she entered the Paris Opera Ballet School (L’Ecole de Danse de l’Opéra de Paris) after giving up her hopes of being a pianist. She joined the company in 1989, and became a premiers danseurs in December 1996. Dupont was nominated to etoile in 1998 after her performance as Kitri in Nureyev's production of Don Quixote.
In March of 2002 she danced with Andrian Fadeyev in the Kirov Ballet's production of Romeo and Juliet.
[edit] Repertoire
Dupont's repertoire includes:
- Don Quixote
- La Bayadère
- Sylvia
- Giselle
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Sleeping Beauty
- Raymonda
- La Sylphide
- Four Temperaments
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