It will have been more than half a century at the Palais Garnier or Bastille. The star and choreographer dancer Patrice Bart, a figure of the National Opera of Paris (ONP), died at the age of 80, announced on Monday, October 6, the institution, paying tribute to an “essential person for several generations of dancers.”
The artist, who was also a ballet teacher, “will have spent 54 years in the Opera in Paris, his first steps in the dance school when he left in 2011,” adds the ONP.
Born in 1945, Patrice Bart entered the ONP dance school in 1957, at the age of 12. He is involved in Ballet’s body with only 14 years, continuing his studies in parallel. He crossed all the ranks and became a star dancer in 1972, at age 24.
“It is magnificent because it is the culmination of what we dream of with all its youth and, at the same time, it is the beginning of another life,” AFP said in 2011, when he left the institution.
The ONP indicates that he danced “all the great roles of the repertoire, of Petrouchka to the prince of The Sleeping Beauty of the Forestof Don Quixote In Luxurious sonAnd it is one of Serge Lifar’s creations (…), Roland Petit (…), Macmillan (…) or Noureev “.
In 1987, it became a ballet teacher and then “associated with the Dance address” of the ONP in 1990, a function that will celebrate until 2011.
“Tireless energy”
Choreographer, signed several works for the statsoper Berlin (Don Quixote In 1993, THE LAC DES CYGNES In 1997, among others), for the ONP (Coppelia, The little dance of Degas) or for the Bayerische Ope Ballet in Munich (The Bayadère).
In 1991, he returned with his counterpart Eugène Polyakov the “Giselle” ballet, according to the original choreography. “Passionate, demanding, well alive and full of humor, he wore ballet and teams thanks to his tireless energy,” greets the ONP. Commander of the Arts and Letters, of the National Order of Merit and the Knight of the Legion of Honor, also received the Nijinski Award in 1974.
Source: BFM TV
