We are pleased to announce that a new master-class for the Mikhailovsky Theater ballet artists (under the leadership of the artistic director of the ballet company Farukh Ruzimatov) will be held from March 3rd to 9th 2008. Jean-Guillaume Bart, one of the most celebrated French dancers, principle dancer of Opera National de Paris, Etoile, choreographer and teacher, will visit St. Petersburg by invitation of the Farukh Ruzimatov Foundation.
On March 4th the Farukh Ruzimatov Foundation together with L'Institut Francais de Saint-Petersbourg (Nevsky prospect, 12) arranges a public meeting with Jean-Guillaume Bart.
Jean-Guillaume Bart
Jean-Guillaume Bart enters the School of Paris Opera Ballet in 1983. After graduating in 1988 he joins the Paris Opera Ballet company. Promoted to Coryphee in 1989, he draws attention to Rudolf Noureev and goes on tour with his company to Mexico.
Due to the recognition of his strong technique and his pure style, he is quickly promoted from Sujet (1991) to Premier Danseur (1996) and is given the principal parts of the classical repertoire. In 1995, Jean-Guillaume Bart takes the Prix Carpeaux and in 1996 the Prix de l’A.R.O.P. On January 5th of 2000, Jean-Guillaume Bart is appointed Danseur Etoile after his performance of Prince Desire in Noureev’s Sleeping Beauty. In 2000, he gets the Prix Benois de la Danse for his interpretation of Georges Balanchine’s Apollon Musagete.
His repertoire includes the principal ballets such as Swan Lake, Raymonda, La Bayadere, The Nutcraker, Don Quixote, Cinderella (Rudolf Noureev), Coppelia and Giselle (Patrice Bart), but also Manon (Kenneth McMillan), Agon, Serenade, Tchaikovski pas de deux, Liebeslieder Waltzer, Violin Concerto, Emeralds and Diamonds (which he performs for the DVD recording in 2005)(Georges Balanchine), In The Night and Other Dances (Jerome Robbins), The Nutcraker, Sylvia, Midsummer Night Dream (John Neumeier), Paquita (reconstitution by Pierre Lacotte), Suite en blanc (Serge Lifar), Etudes (Harald Lander), IXe Symphonie and Webern Opus V (Maurice Bejart), etc.
Jean-Guillaume Bart participated in the creation of William Forsythe’s Pas./Parts (2000), Kader Belarbi’s Wuthering Heights (part of Edgar- 2002), and Patrice Bart’s La Petite Danseuse de Degas (2003). He also had the opportunity to perform characters in Nijinski’s Afternoon of a Faun, Monsieur Duval in John Neumeier’s La Dame aux Camelias and Coppelius in Patrice Bart’s Coppelia, and to explore a more contemporary universe with Jiri Kylian’s Stepping Stones and Bella Figura.
Jean-Guillaume Bart takes part in many tours of the Paris Opera Ballet abroad (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Beijing, Barcelona, Madrid, Vienna…); he is invited to perform at various festivals (Marinsky Theatre of Petersburg, Maggio Danza of Firenze, Spoleto, Moscow, Lisboa, Bratislava, etc.) and conduct master classes. In 2005, he is awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
