Dancers

Premier soliste

Photo: John Hall

Émilie DURVILLE

Lille, France
“The outside elements that surround us are essential to inspiration and artistic development.”
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Training

1993-1999 École nationale supérieure de danse de Marseille

1999-2001 Marseille Ballet and School professional class (director: Roland Petit, then Marie-Claude Pietragalla in 1998)

Career

2001 Brussels Ballet

2003 Ballet Víctor Ullate Comunidad de Madrid

2004 Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal

2008 Promoted to soloist

Repertory

During her training at the École nationale supérieure de Marseille, Émilie Durville danced in Ragtime, Isadora Duncan (Roland Petit) and Petite suite (Violette Verdy). In 2002, she has danced the role of death in Carmen (Menia Martinez) and Jaleos (Victor Ullate) in Madrid, Burka (Eduardo Lao) and Before Night Fall (Nils Christie). For Les Grands Ballets, Émilie Durville has danced in Romeo and Juliet (Jean-Christophe Maillot), Minus One, Passo Mezzo, Kaamos and Perpetuum (Ohad Naharin), the Pas de deux of the Flower Waltz, the Snow Queen and the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker (Fernand Nault), Noces and The Rite of Spring (Stijn Celis), TooT (Didy Veldman), Jardí Tancat (Nacho Duato), Polyphonia (Christopher Wheeldon), Six Dances, Forgotten Land and Bella Figura(Jiří Kylián), RE-, II (Shen Wei), Four Seasons and Cantata (Mauro Bigonzetti), The Queen of Spades (Kim Brandstrup), and the Red Fairy in Sleeping Beauty (Mats Ek) and Lena in Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck).

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