Dorothée Gilbert
Henry St Clair
Rafi Gokay Wol
“The first performance (Raymonda), wonderfully danced by the star Dorothée Gilbert, was a real moment of magic and delight for dance lovers.”
(Lorine Mortha, Bachtrack, 2019)
Étoile ballerina: L’Opéra de Paris
Étoile at L’Opéra de Paris Dorothée Gilbert is one of the world’s most recognised and celebrated ballerinas of the 21st century. Dorothée graduated from the Conservatoire de region de Toulouse into the company and was promoted to étoile after a performance of The Nutcracker in 2007.
Dorothée Gilbert has danced every major role within the female ballet repertoire including Swanilda in Coppelia, The Star and the title role in La Petite danseuse de Degas (P. Bart), Les Quatre Tempéraments, the first movement of Symphony in C, Rubis / Joyaux, Apollon, Mozartiana, the Divertissement from Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, Theme et Variations, Agon (Balanchine), Serait-ce la mort? (Béjart), the title role in Giselle (after Coralli and Perrot), Tatiana in Onéguine (Cranko), Nuages, Bella Figura, Tar and Feathers (Kylián), the title role of La Sylphide(Lacotte after Taglioni), Suite en blanc (Lifar), Manon in L’Histoire de Manon (MacMillan), Triade (Millepied), Prudence in La Dame aux camélias, Troisième Symphonie de Gustav Mahler, Le Chant de la terre (Neumeier), Henriette and Raymonda in Raymonda, one of the Sisters and the title role of Cendrillon, Nikiya in La Bayadère, Odette / Odile in Swan Lake, Juliette in Romeo et Juliette (Nureyev), Albertine in Proust ou les intermittences du cœur (Petit), Psyche (Ratmansky), En Sol, The Ballerina in The Concert, Other Dances (Robbins), Bolero (Bejart), Mary Vetsera in Mayerling (MacMillan), Jeune Homme et la mort (R.Petit), Le Rouge et le Noir (Pierre Lacotte) and In The Night (Robbins).
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“Dorothée Gilbert danced like a perfect ambassador of sober French elegance. She offered rapturous moments in her solo. Gilbert, slim and graceful, moved her arms like swan wings, she revealed that she has blossomed into a fine tragedian.”