About
Florian Magnenet is a French dancer, born on May 15, 1981 in Paris. He is currently the first dancer at the Paris Opera Ballet.
Florian Magnenet begins by taking an interest in gymnastics, which he practices for three years before entering the Conservatory of Clamart, when he is ten years old. He spent the following year the entrance examination of the Paris Opera Ballet School and returned to the Nanterre School in February 1993, for a six-year course that he will perform without incident. In those years, he participated in various shows and is particularly illustrated in the role of the Gypsy Two Pigeons. He is also one of the students who create Yondering, by John Neumeier.
Enlisted in the ballet corps of the Paris Opera in 1999, at the age of 19, he was promoted to Coryphée in 2002 and then, two years later, became a subject. In 2010, he became first dancer after playing solos from Don Quixote and Suite en blanc.
In 2005, he played his first big role in Cinderella Rudolf Nureyev: he must replace the star Manuel Legris, knee injured, and has only two weeks to repeat. Subsequently, he played a solo role in Jewels and dance Lucien d'Hervilly in Paquita, during the tour of the troupe in Novosibirsk, in September 2010. Three months later, he replaced Hervé Moreau in Apollon musagète, George Balanchine and made his debut in the lead role of Romeo and Juliet in April 2011. In May 2011, he danced in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Rain at the entrance of the contemporary dance piece in the institution's repertoire.
He was awarded the AROP Public Prize in 2005, two years after receiving the Carpeaux Circle Award.
Repertoire
- Cinderella: the star actor, a friend of the actor
- Paquita: Lucien d'Hervilly
- The four temperaments: theme
- Romeo and Juliet: Romeo, Paris
- Jewels: Diamonds
- Raymonda: Jean de Brienne, Bernard, Beranger
- Proust or Intermittent Heart: Saint-Loup, the Hells of M. Charlus
- Onegin: Lenski
- The Lady with Camellias: Des Grieux, a sigh of Manon
- Apollo musagète: Apollo
- Bayadère: Solor