Marc
Moreau

Benois de la Danse nominee

Was born in Royan, France. He began his first dance training at the age of four. In 1999, he entered the Paris Opera Ballet School. In 2004, he joined the Corps de Ballet of the Paris Opera. Consistently passed all stages of professional growth and policies: the luminary (2009), Sujet (2011), Prime (2019) and Danseur Étoile – the Star (2023).

His repertoire includes: Colas (F. Ashton's La Fille mal gardée), Lensky (J. Kranko's Onegin), The Golden God (R. Nureyev's La Bayadère), Prince Siegfried (R. Nureyev's Swan Lake), Droselmeyer/Prince (The Nutcracker, Noureev), Albrecht (Giselle), Lucien (Paquita, Lacotte), Basilio (Don Quixote, Noureev), Blue bird (The Sleeping beauty, Noureev), Des Grieux (Histoire of Manon, McMillan), Mercutio and Benvolio (R. Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet), The Ghost (Le Spectre de la rose by M. Fokine), pas de troyes (Paquita by P. Lacotte), Scottish pas de deux (La Sylphide by P. Lacotte), Monsieur de Renal (Red and Black by Pierre Lacotte, first performer), A Young Man (The Wolf by R. Petit), as well as roles in the ballets of J. Balanchine, Jean-Guillaume Bar, Tricia Brown, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalle, Anna Therese de Kearsmaker, Alexander Ekman, William Forsyth, Marco Geke, Victor Gzovsky, Jiri Kilian, Nacho Duate, Justin Peck, Angelin Preljocaj, Christopher Wheeldon, etc.

Mark Moreau went on tour with Paris Opera Ballet in Europe, China, Japan, USA, Russia, Siberia and Australia. AROP award (2010). He credits include the documentary film L’Opera (2017), La Danse (2009) and Reset (2016). Collaboration with couture houses Valentino, Chanel and Dior.