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9 unusual facts about Roland Petit


Anna Antonicheva

She replayed Raymonda in 2003 and the same year appeared in Esmeralda which was performed at the Notre Dame de Paris and was produced by Roland Petit.

Arthur Oldham

This had its first performance on 26 April 1949 at the Prince's Theatre, London, by the Ballet de Paris de Roland Petit.

Colette Marchand

She performed as a première ballerina on Broadway: Roland Petit's Les Ballets de Paris (1949 & 1950) and Two on the Aisle (1951).

Davide Bombana

-- is "guested" English? --> in La Scala's production of John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet and Roland Petit's Proust, and has worked at the Bayerische Staatsballett in Munich as a principal dancer from 1986-1991 (and as a choreographer from 1991–1998).

Eric Redd

Then, after turning down a position in The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s second company, he spent a year with the Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers before moving to Paris, where he joined Roland Petit’s Ballet de Marseilles.

Giorgio Madia

A role was created for him in the production Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer, choreographed by Roland Petit.

Guesch Patti

Guesch Patti first started her career at dancing at age nine when she performed in a ballet at the Opéra National de Paris, working with Roland Petit, then at contemporary dance with Carolyn Carlson and Pina Bausch, and finally at variety dance on television.

Mischa Scorer

During the 1990s he made a number of documentaries in the BBC’s “Omnibus” series, including films with Jung Chang, Isabel Allende, Joshua Bell, András Schiff, Roland Petit and Zizi Jeanmaire.

Sonia Petrovna

Petrovna was born in Paris, from between the age of 6 and 14 she studied dance at the Paris Opera Ballet (Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris) and on the initial invitation of Roland Petit went on to appear in various ballet productions.


Leonor Fini

She designed costumes and decorations for theater, ballet and opera, including the first ballet performed by Roland Petit's Ballet de Paris, "Les Demoiselles de la nuit", featuring a young Margot Fonteyn.


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Ballet National de Marseille

Under Roland Petit the company's program included modern dance featuring Petit's wife Zizi Jeanmaire, who became famous throughout France.

Jeannine Achón

Two years later, in late 2009, she organized an exhibition at the National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC), entitled "Las Intermitencias del Color", a title inspired by Roland Petit's ballet "Proust, or Intermittences of the Heart" based on the eponymous work of Marcel Proust, with fifteen new large-format paintings.