After having been promoted to "première danseuse" on 29 December 1984 at the Ballet Competition, five days later, at the end of her first Swan Lake Nureyev's version), she was nominated "Etoile" on stage by Rudolf Nureyev. She was only nineteen years old at the time.

She left the Opéra de Paris in 1988 to pursue an international career. She is currently a guest artist at the Royal Ballet of London, but returns to dance as a "guest of the Opéra".

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She was nominated "Etoile" on stage by Rudolf Nureyev at the same time as Laurent Hilaire, at the end of a performance of Swan Lake (the Bourmeister version).

She retired from the Opéra in May 2001 but returns to dance as a "guest". She was also responsible for rehearsals for the revival of La Bayadère (November-December 2001) at the Bastille, and she re-staged the Don Quixote of Nureyev at the Scala of Milan (November 2003).

Elisabeth MAURIN
Le 23 Décembre 1988

Rudolf Nureyev nominated her "Etoile" on the set of The Nutcracker Suite, a film produced by Nureyev and Colin Nears for French Television, in the studios at Bry-sur-Marne.

Manuel LEGRIS
Le 11 Juillet 1986 *

He was nominated "Etoile" by Rudolf Nureyev on stage at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, at the end of the performance of Raymonda, in which he danced the role of Jean de Brienne, during the official tour of the Opéra de Paris in the United States, which the Company had not visited since 1948.
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Laurent HILAIRE
Le 2 Novembre 1985 *

He was nominated "Etoile" on stage by Rudolf Nureyev at the end of the performance of Swan Lake (the Bourmeister version).

At present, he is also in charge of rehearsals at the Ballet of the Opéra.