Aurélie Dupont
Aurélie Dupont [' ɔʀeli dy'pɔ ] ( born January 15, 1973 in Paris ) is a French ballet dancer. It is Étoile the Ballet of the Opéra National de Paris.
Childhood
Aurélie Dupont originally wanted to become a pianist, because she liked piano music.
When she was seven years old, she moved with her parents and her two sisters for two years in the United States to Bethesda in Maryland, ten kilometers north of Washington, DC, where her father worked as a researcher.
There she came in contact with music and dancing and witnessed the performance of a musical. She developed a passion for the piano.
At the age of nine she moved with her parents back to Paris. Her parents were against her desire to learn to play the piano, because - as the assessment of Aurélie Dupont in hindsight - we thought a piano would also cost a lot of money and take up too much space in her small apartment in Paris.
The parents brought Aurélie Dupont instead to take ballet lessons and said that ballet dancing is good for little girls. Since Aurélie Dupont vorfand the ballet studio a beautiful old piano that played a great, older pianist Chopin, and basically could not even imagine right, which would make later career, she was willing to take ballet lessons, with sensation as relatively close to her first passion, the piano music to be.
Career
1983, with ten years, Aurélie Dupont joined the Ballet School of the Paris Opera, which goes over six years and in the past due at the annual examinations half of the students were screened.
At the age of sixteen, in 1989, she was a member of the corps de ballet of the Paris Opera, 1991, she became the coryphée, promoted a year later to the sujet. It was première danseuse in 1996.
1998, when Aurélie Dupont was twenty-five years old, he was appointed to étoile following her appearance as Kitri in Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quixote.
Aurélie Dupont's repertoire comprises 29 choreographies of different eras, including several created especially for the roles.
The one-hour documentary L' espace d'un instant aired March 2, 2010 on France 3, the Cédric Klapisch had compiled in the previous four years.
It contains extracts from samples in which Aurélie Dupont is seen with each of the étoiles the Opéra National de Paris, Marie- Agnès Gillot, Manuel Legris and Mathias Heymann, as well as scenes when she was pregnant with her first son and it increased 20 kg had. Five months after the birth of her son, she again had "lost" the kilos and appeared in the training of the ballet company of the Paris Opera.
After a break of more than a year Aurélie Dupont occurred again ..
Private life
From 2002 to 2006 Aurélie Dupont had a relationship with the comedian Gad Elmaleh.
For several years she has been married to Jérémie Bélingard, the étoile is. They have two sons, Jacques and Georges, who were born in May 2008 and January 2011.