Hervé
Moreau
Benois de la Danse laureate
In 1989 he enters the Paris Opera Ballet School. He participates in the company ballets and in the tours (to Japan). In 1995 he was chosen by Claude Bessy to dance the principal party in Daphnis et Chloé (choreography by George Skibine). In September 1995 at the age of 17 he enters the Corps de Ballet and participates in: Les Variations d▓Ulysse (Jean-Claude Gallotta), Sylvia (John Neumeier), The Four Seasons (Jerome Robbins), la IXe Symphonie (Maurice Béjart), Giselle (d▓après Jean Coralli et Jules Perrot, chorégraphie réglée par Patrice Bart et Eugène Polyakov), La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte), Notre-Dame de Paris (Roland Petit), ainsi que les productions de Rudolf Noureev (La Bayadère, Casse-Noisette, La Belle au bois dormant, Roméo et Juliette, Raymonda). In March 1998 he performs the party of Siegfried in The Swan Lake (pas de trois with the Black Swan from the third act) at the Opera Young Dancers Gala.
In 1999 he becomes «Coryphée». He performes in ballets by William Forsythe: In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated; The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude; and in Pas-de-Cinq of Precious stones from The Sleeping beauty by Rudolf Noureev in 2000. In 2001 he becomes the Soloist. He dances in the ballets by Jiří Kylián (Bella Figura), Jerome Robbins (d▓Afternoon of a faun), John Neumeier (▒Lysandre▓, Le Songe d▓une nuit d▓été), Roland Petit (Phœbus dans Notre-Dame de Paris) in 2001, Rudolf Noureev (Espada, Don Quichotte), George Balanchine (pas de trois, Émeraudes). He participates in the movie Alicia Markova — the Legend dancing the parties from Les Sylphides by Fokin. On December 30, 2002 upon the annual competition at Ballet de l▓Opéra Herve Moreau becomes «Première danseuse». His repertoire includes the parties of: Aminta in Sylvia (John Neumeier), Kourbski in I van le Terrible (Yuri Grigorovitch), Webernm, Oopus V (Maurice Béjart), Tchaikovski pas de deux, Les Quatre tempéraments (George Balanchine), Roméo in Roméo et Juliette (R. Noureev), La Mazurka in Suite en Blanc (Serge Lifar), Albrecht in Giselle.
In 2002 he is awarded by the Association of the Paris Opera Friends the Prize Prix du public. On 2006 upon the performing the main party in La Bayadère he is nominated Danseuse Etoile. As Etoile he dances the parties of Armand in La Dame Aux Camélias by John Neumeier and Les Mirages by Serge Lifar.
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