Description: FRENCH LANGUAGE BIOGRAPHY OF FRENCH BALLET DIRECTOR DESIGNER CHOREOGRAPHER DANCER ROLAND PETIT. Mannoni, Gérard. ROLAND PETIT UN CHORTEGRAPHE ET SERS PEINTRES. (Paris): Hatier, (1990). First Edition. 11 3/4 by 10 1/2 inches in a lovely black silk cloth binding with a silver Jean Cocteau portrait of Roland Petit on the upper cover and silver titling to the spine. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white - a beautiful book which was never issued in an English language editiion. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990 First Edition. Shipping Anywhere In The United States Media Mail $6; International Shipping $95 Please Note: We are happy to accept all forms of payment. Everything we sell is Returnable for any reason. We only ask for prompt notification, within 14 days. We generally do try to "combine shipping" when you purchase more than one item--except in cases of large lots or very heavy shipments. ON INTERNATIONAL ORDERS, WE DO REFUND ON OVERCHARGES!! Don't hesitate to ask for more info/detail on any of our listings. HOFFMAN BOOKS, ABAA, IOBA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRoland PetitPetit in 2009Born13 January 1924 Villemomble, FranceDied10 July 2011 (aged 87) Geneva, SwitzerlandCitizenshipFranceUnited StatesAlma materParis Opéra BalletOccupation(s)Dancer and choreographerYears active1945–2011SpouseZizi Jeanmaire (m. 1954)AwardsPrix Benois de la DanseWebsitewww.roland-petit.frRoland Petit (13 January 1924 – 10 July 2011) was a French ballet company director, choreographer and dancer. He trained at the Paris Opera Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets.Life and work[edit]The son of shoe designer Rose Repetto, Petit was born in Villemomble, near Paris. He trained at the Paris Opéra Ballet school under Gustave Ricaux and Serge Lifar and began to dance with the corps de ballet in 1940. He founded the Ballets des Champs-Élysées in 1945 and the Ballets de Paris in 1948, at Théâtre Marigny, with Zizi Jeanmaire as star dancer.Petit collaborated with Constant Lambert (Ballabile - 1950), Henri Dutilleux (Le Loup - 1953), Serge Gainsbourg, Yves Saint-Laurent and César Baldaccini and participated in several French and American films. He returned to the Paris Opéra in 1965 to mount a production of Notre Dame de Paris (with music by Maurice Jarre). He continued to direct ballets for the largest theatres of France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Canada and Cuba.In 1968, his ballet Turangalîla provoked a small revolution within the Paris Opéra. Four years later, in 1972, he founded the Ballet National de Marseille with the piece "Pink Floyd Ballet". He directed the Ballet National de Marseille for the next 26 years. For the décor of his ballets, he would work in close collaboration with the painter Jean Carzou (1907–2000), but also with other artists such as Max Ernst.[citation needed]The creator of more than 50 ballets across all genres, he choreographed for a plethora of famed international dancers. He refused the free technical effects; he did not stop reinventing his style, language, and became a master in the arts of pas de deux and of narrative ballet, but he succeeded also in abstract ballets. He collaborated also with the nouveaux réalistes including Martial Raysse, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely.Le jeune homme et la mort ("The Young Man and Death") of 1946 (libretto by Jean Cocteau) is considered his magnum opus and it is also his most well-known work; the choreography and the costumes are of astonishing modernity. In his 1949 ballet Carmen, he made an unusual use of the en dedans, while he gave a non-figurative treatment to Turangalîla.[citation needed]Among the films to which he contributed are Symphonie en blanc by René Chanas and François Ardoin (1942 short film on history of dance) in which he appeared as a dancer; the choreography for the 1948 film Alice in Wonderland, The Glass Slipper in 1954, Anything Goes (with others) in 1956,[1] and Black Tights as choreographer, writer, and dancer[2] in 1960.
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Binding: Cocteau Pictorial Cloth Binding in Dust Jackert
Language: French
Author: Mannoni, Gérard
Publisher: Hatier
Topic: Ballet and Dance
Subject: Cocteau Pictorial Cloth Binding in Dust Jacket
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