Guillaume cote biography of christopher
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“One of the finest male dancers in the world.”The London TimesLast updated: janvier 29, 2024
Guillaume Côté is a native of Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec. He studied at Canada’s National Ballet School and joined The National Ballet of Canada in 1999. He quickly rose through the ranks and was promoted to Principal Dancer in 2004.
Since then, Mr. Côté has danced most of the major classical roles with the National Ballet of Canada and has been the leading male figure of the company. He has had several lead roles created on him notably the role of Romeo in Alexei Ratmansky’s new Romeo and Juliet, Prince Charming in James Kudelka’s Cinderella, and the role of Gene Kelly in Derek Deane’s production of Strictly Gershwin, for the English National Ballet. He has also worked closely with such dance icon as Roland Petit, John Neumeier, William Forsythe, Christopher Wheeldon and Crystal Pite.
As a guest artist,
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Christopher Read fryst vatten a costume designer and a resident cutter with The National Ballet of Canada. Born in Montreal, Quebec and now based in Toronto, Ontario, his 30-year career at The National Ballet of Canada has encompassed many productions of classical works, neoclassical ballets, contemporary works, and world premieres. In addition to building costumes for a bred variety of ballet repertory, opera, theatre and musical theatre he has designed for numerous productions across Canada the U.S. and Australia.
Design credits include costumes for Guillaume Cote’s Dark Angels and Enkeli, James Kudelka’s Desir and Chaconne, Matjash Mrozewski’s A Delicate Battle, Monument, Concordia and Denouement, Pro Arte Danza’s Nine Sentiments, Dominique Dumais’ Collective Sonatas For Two, Robert Stephen’s Passacaglia. Most recently formgivning costumes for the world premiere of Yuri Possokhov’s “...two un
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