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Danseur noble

Male ballet dancer


Summary

Male ballet dancer

A danseur noble traditionally was a male ballet dancer who projected great nobility of character. Over the last century, the term has been used to define a male principal dancer who performs at the highest theatrical level combining grace with ability. Some use danseur noble as the masculine equivalent to a Prima Ballerina, or to refer to the male partner of a ballerina during a pas de deux.

Notable examples

Historical and retired

  • Gaétan Vestris
  • Charles Le Picq
  • Vaslav Nijinsky
  • Léonide Massine
  • Serge Lifar
  • Adolph Bolm
  • Mikhail Mordkin
  • Anton Dolin
  • Theodore Kosloff
  • Pavel Gerdt
  • Vakhtang Chabukiani
  • Pyotr Gusev
  • Asaf Messerer
  • Roman Jasiński
  • Igor Youskevitch
  • Vasily Tikhomirov
  • Aleksey Yermolayev
  • Nikolai Fadeyechev
  • Sergei Filin
  • Askold Makarov
  • Konstantin Sergeyev
  • Erik Bruhn
  • Rudolf Nureyev
  • Edward Villella
  • Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux
  • Nicolas Le Riche
  • Li Cunxin
  • Carlos Acosta
  • Jean Guizerix
  • Vladimir Vasiliev
  • Cyril Atanassoff
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Henning Kronstam
  • Jacques d'Amboise
  • Fernando Bujones
  • Robert Helpmann
  • Michael Somes
  • Reid Anderson
  • Anthony Dowell
  • Wayne Eagling
  • José Martinez
  • Ivan Nagy
  • Peter Martins
  • Laurent Hilaire
  • Julio Bocca
  • Nikolay Tsiskaridze
  • Manuel Legris
  • Johan Kobborg
  • Ethan Stiefel
  • Maris Liepa
  • Yuri Soloviev
  • Alexander Godunov
  • Irek Mukhamedov
  • Farukh Ruzimatov
  • Vladimir Malakhov

Current

  • Roberto Bolle
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • José Manuel Carreño
  • David Hallberg
  • Marcelo Gomes
  • Vladimir Yaroshenko
  • Federico Bonelli
  • Sergei Polunin
  • Thiago Soares
  • Rupert Pennefather
  • Igor Zelensky
  • Mathieu Ganio
  • Stéphane Bullion
  • Evan McKie
  • Matthew Golding
  • Igor Kolb
  • Leonid Sarafanov
  • Vladimir Shklyarov
  • Friedemann Vogel
  • Vadim Muntagirov

References

References

  1. "DANSEUR NOBLE definition in American English".
  2. "Danseur noble".
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