The Beauty of Dance, Part Ten: Aurélie Dupont, Paris Opera Ballet

Aurélie Dupont is a legend in French ballet.

She joined the Paris Opera Ballet at the age of sixteen in 1989 and and became a première danseuse i the company seven years later.  In 1998, after she danced the role of Kitri in the Paris Opera Ballet's revival of Nureyev's production of Don Quixote, she was promoted to star dancer.

Mme. Dupont would go on to dance leading roles in La Bayadère, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, and The Four Temperaments, among others, as well as the Paris Opera Ballet's revival of Nureyev's version of The Sleeping Beauty. 

Mme. Dupont formally retired from the Paris Opera stage following a performance of Kenneth MacMillan's Manon in May 2015, but in 2016 she became the director of dance for the Paris Opera Ballet, a position she would hold for six years.