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Claude Bessy

Claude Bessy

Actor, Other Crew, Art Department

Born October 21, 1932 in Paris, France

Died October 2, 1999

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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.

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Filmography

Actor

46

Type

Year

La galerie France 5 Poster

La galerie France 5 TV Series2012Self

Serge Lifar Musagète Poster

Serge Lifar Musagète Documentary2005Self

Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet Poster

Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet Documentary2001La Directrice de l'École de Danse

Serge Peretti, le dernier Italien Poster

Serge Peretti, le dernier Italien Documentary1997Self

Grands pas classiques TV Series1978Self - Choreographer

L'école des fans Poster

L'école des fans TV Series1977Self

Musique and Music TV Series1977Self

Le grand échiquier Poster

Le grand échiquier TV Series1972Self

Top à... Poster

Top à... TV Series1972Self

Cadet Rousselle Poster

Cadet Rousselle TV Series1971Self - Dancer

Grand Amphi TV Series1971Self

Samedi soir TV Series1971Self

Le trésor des Hollandais TV Series1969Olympe

Musicolor Poster

Musicolor TV Series1969Self

Au théâtre ce soir Poster

Au théâtre ce soir TV Series1966Cécile Pointet

Le miroir à trois faces: Thaïs Poster

Le miroir à trois faces: Thaïs TV Movie1966Thais

Le miroir à trois faces: La dame aux camélias TV Movie1965Marguerite Gautier

Le miroir à trois faces: La vie de bohème TV Movie1965Musette

Eurovision 10ème anniversaire Documentary1964Self

Le miroir à trois faces: La Tosca TV Movie1964Floria Tosca

Le miroir à trois faces: Le barbier de Séville TV Movie1964Rosine

Invitation à la danse TV Series1963

Passe-temps TV Movie1962

Petit-jour Poster

Petit-jour Short Film1962

On vous écrira TV Movie1961

Gala de l'union Poster

Gala de l'union TV Series1959Self

Les joies de la vie Poster

Les joies de la vie TV Series1959Self

The Gene Kelly Show TV Special1959Self

Vive les vacances Poster

Vive les vacances Feature Film1958Ingrid

Discorama Poster

Discorama TV Series1957Self

Une nuit aux Baléares Poster

Une nuit aux Baléares Feature Film1957Alma Vargas

École des vedettes TV Series1956Self

Invitation to the Dance Poster

Invitation to the Dance Feature Film1956The Model in 'Ring Around the Rosy'

The Ambassador's Daughter Poster

The Ambassador's Daughter Feature Film1956Ballerina in 'Swan Lake'

Le congrès de la danse Short Film1955

Trente-Six Chandelles Poster

Trente-Six Chandelles TV Series1954Self

Agence matrimoniale Short Film1952

Deux maîtres pour un valet Short Film1952

La jeune fille aux allumettes Short Film1952

La joie de vivre Poster

La joie de vivre TV Series1952Self

Le poignard Short Film1952

Omnibus TV Series1952

Sous les ponts Short Film1952

La mystérieuse Fatima Short Film1951

Quartetto Short Film1951

Dream Ballerina Poster

Dream Ballerina Feature Film1950

Other Crew

5

Type

Year

Les parents ne sont pas simples cette année Poster

Les parents ne sont pas simples cette année Feature Film1984

Le bourgeois gentilhomme Poster

Le bourgeois gentilhomme Feature Film1982

Grands pas classiques TV Series1978

Le miroir à trois faces: La Tosca TV Movie1964

Gala de l'union Poster

Gala de l'union TV Series1959

Art Department

1

Le bourgeois gentilhomme Poster

Le bourgeois gentilhomme Feature Film1982

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