Roland Petit

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Roland Petit (b. 13 January 1924) is a French choreographer and dancer born in Villemomble near Paris, France. He trained at the Paris Opéra ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets, which include:

  • Le jeune homme et la mort (English: The Young Man and Death, 1946),
  • Les forains (English: The Traveling Players, 1948),
  • Carmen (1949),
  • Le loup (English: The Wolf, 1953),
  • Notre-Dame de Paris (1965),
  • Paradise Lost (1967),
  • Les amours de Frantz (English: The Loves of Frantz, 1981).

He married Zizi Jeanmaire in 1954, a performer in a number of his works. His memoirs were published in 1993, J'ai dansé sur les flots (English: I Danced on the Waves).

In 1947 his mother, Rose Repetto, founded the world-known ballet shoe company, Repetto.

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