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Claude Bessy
Acting

Claude Bessy
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1932-10-21,Paris, France
Gender
Female
Biography
Claude Bessy (born in Paris, 20 October 1932) is a French ballerina, ballet master of the Paris Opera Ballet (1970–1971) and director of the Paris Opera Ballet School (1972–2004). Bessy trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School from the age of ten, the youngest student ever admitted, and joined the Paris Opera Ballet at age 13, the youngest danseuse ever admitted. In 1956, she was promoted to étoile, the Ballet's highest rank. Bessy was closely associated with Serge Lifar and created leading roles in his 1951 Snow White, 1955 Noces fantastiques and 1958 Daphnis and Chloe. She worked with John Cranko, who made his 1955 La Belle Hêlène on her, and George Skibine, who made a second Daphnis and Chloe on Bessy in 1959. Bessy was featured in Gene Kelly's film Invitation to the Dance (1956), and four years later he created Pas de dieux at the Paris Opera for her. She also made many television appearances. Bessy has staged ballets for the Comédie Française and Opéra Comique, dances for the musical My Fair Lady (1984) and continues to stage the ballets of Lifar throughout Europe. As director of the Paris Opera Ballet School, she introduced profound reforms to the teaching regime which led to the birth of a new generation of highly technical dancers like Sylvie Guillem, Patrick Dupond, Élisabeth Platel, Marie-Claude Pietragalla, and succeeded in organising the construction of a new school building in Nanterre inaugurated in 1987. Bessy was named to France's Ordre national du Mérite (dignity of the Grand Cross, its highest class), in 2009. Source: Article "Claude Bessy (dancer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

Maître Bolbec et son mari

4

Maître Bolbec et son mari
1973-06-22

Invitation to the Dance

5.9

Invitation to the Dance
1956-05-22

Dream Ballerina

4

Dream Ballerina
1950-10-23

A Night in the Balearics

4

A Night in the Balearics
1957-05-14

Vive les vacances

0

Vive les vacances
1958-12-24

Ballet terrain vague

0

Ballet terrain vague
1957-01-01

Le fou de la danse

5

Le fou de la danse
1951-01-01

Le Grand Échiquier

8

Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12

Cadet Rousselle

0

Cadet Rousselle
1971-11-04

6

Samedi soir
1971-01-09

7.2

Fan School
1977-01-30

0

Discorama
1959-02-04

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