About
On June 2nd 2010, he is made an « Étoile » following a performance of La Bayadère (Rudolf Nureyev).
He has since added to his repertoire: Violin Concerto, Thésée and the Cavalier de Titania in Le Songe d’une nuit d’été (Balanchine), Orpheus in Orpheus and Eurydice (Pina Bausch), Signs (Carolyn Carlson), A bras le corps (Charmatz), Jean in Miss Julie (Birgit Cullberg), Apartment (Mats Ek), Doux Mensonges, Symphonie de psaumes (Jiří Kylián), Lescaut in Manon (Kenneth MacMillan), Baptiste in Les Enfants du Paradis (José Martinez), Prince Siegfried and Rothbart in Swan Lake, The Actor-Film Star in Cinderella (Rudolf Nureyev), Le Loup, The Young Man and Death, Don José in Carmen, Quasimodo in Notre-Dame de Paris (Roland Petit), Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj), Afternoon of a Faun(Jerome Robbins).
CREATIONS AT THE OPERA
AndréAuria
Lock - 2002
MC 14/22
Preljocaj - 2004
Proust ou les intermittences du cœur – rôle de Morel
Petit - 2007
La Maison de Bernarda – rôle de l’Homme
Ek - 2008
Troisième Symphonie de Gustav Mahler
Neumeier - 2009
Répliques
Paul - 2009
Siddharta – rôle d’Ananda
Preljocaj - 2010
Kaguyahime – rôle du Mikado
Kylián - 2010
Psyché – rôle d’Éros
Ratmansky - 2011
Die Grosse Fuge et Verklarte Nacht
De Keersmaeker - 2015
Polyphonia
Wheeldon - 2015
Iolanta / Casse‑Noisette – rôle de Vaudemont
Tcherniakov - 2016
Brahms‑Schonberg Quartet
Balanchine - 2016
Sept mètres et demi au‑dessus des montagnes
Paul - 2017
Play
Ekman - 2017
The Male Dancer
Pérez - 2018
CAREER HISTORY
1994
He enters the Ballet School.
1997
At the age of 17, he joins the Corps de ballet.
2001
He becomes a “Coryphée”. He performs the role of the Faun in The Afternoon of a Faun (Vaslav Nijinsky) as well as the role of Paris in Romeo and Juliet (Rudolf Nureyev).
2003
He is made a “Sujet”. Prix AROP de la Danse. He is cast in Emeralds / Jewels, the third theme / The Four Temperaments (George Balanchine), the Man in Black in La Petite danseuse de Degas (Patrice Bart), the Phoenix in Firebird, the Chief Gangster in Le Mandarin Merveilleux (Maurice Béjart), Hindley in Wuthering Heights (Kader Belarbi), Iñigo in Paquita (Pierre Lacotte after Joseph Mazilier and Marius Petipa), the Marchand in Les Mirages(Serge Lifar), the Precious Stones pas de cinq in Sleeping Beauty, Tybalt and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, Rothbart in Swan Lake and Espada in Don Quichotte (Rudolf Nureyev), the title role in Ivan the Terrible (Yuri Grigorovitch), Morel in Proust ou les Intermittences du Cœur (Roland Petit), Jason in Le Songe de Médée (Angelin Preljocaj), Glass Pieces (Jerome Robbins).
2008
He is made a “Premier danseur”. He dances Albrecht in Giselle (after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot), White Darkness(Nacho Duato), the Moor in Petrushka (Michel Fokine), Lucien in Paquita (Pierre Lacotte after Joseph Mazilier and Marius Petipa), the title role in Caligula (Nicolas Le Riche), Suite en Blanc (Serge Lifar), Armand in La Dame aux Camélias (John Neumeier), Jean de Brienne and Abderam in Raymonda, Solor in La Bayadère (Rudolf Nureyev), Frédéri in L’Arlésienne (Roland Petit), the title role in Siddharta (Angelin Preljocaj) and In The Night (Jerome Robbins).
DISTINCTIONS
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.