Benjamin Pech Étoile

On September 22nd 2005, at the Grand Theatre in Shanghai, he is made an « Étoile » after an evening in which he successively performed the roles of Albrecht in Giselle (after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot) and Frederi in L’Arlésienne (Roland Petit).

Biography

He has since added to his repertoire: the Member and the Man in Black in La Petite Danseuse deDegas, Coppélius in Coppélia (Patrice Bart), Agon, Sonatine (George Balanchine), the title role of Onegin (John Cranko), Petrushka (Michel Fokine), Woundwork 1 (William Forsythe), Nuages (Jiří Kylián), Lucien d’Hervilly in Paquita (Pierre Lacotte after Joseph Mazilier and Marius Petipa), Mnester in Caligula (Nicolas Le Riche), Armand in La Dame aux Camélias (John Neumeier), Afternoon of a Faun (Vaslav Nijinsky), Drosselmeyer / the Prince in The Nutcracker, the Dance Teacher in Cinderella, Rothbart in Swan Lake (Rudolf Nureyev), the Young Proust in Proust ou les Intermittences du Cœur, Le Loup, the Young Man in Le Rendez-vous (Roland Petit), Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj), Eros in Psyché (Alexei Ratmansky), Dances at a Gathering (Jerome Robbins).

Biography

1986

He enters the Paris Opera Ballet School.

1992
At the age of 18, he joins the Corps de ballet.

1994
He becomes a “Coryphée”. He is awarded the Grand Prix and the Gold Medal at the International Plissetskaya Competition in Saint Petersburg. At the “Young Dancers Evenings” he performs the role of the Prince in the pas de deux from Act II of The Nutcracker (Rudolf Nureyev).

1996

Prix du Cercle Carpeaux. He dances the Pastoral pas de trois in The Nutcracker.

1997

He is made a “Sujet”. He performs the role of the bluebird in Sleeping Beauty and Béranger in Raymonda (Rudolf Nureyev).

1998
Prix AROP de la Danse. He is cast to perform the Peasants’ pas de deux in Giselle (after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot) and Vaslaw (John Neumeier).

1999

He is promoted to “Premier danseur”. He dances the roles of Frantz in Coppélia (Patrice Bart), Capriccio, The Prodigal Son, Symphony in C, Concerto Barocco, Emeralds / Jewels (George Balanchine), 9th Symphony, Michaël in Le Concours, the title role of Firebird (Maurice Béjart), Albrecht in Giselle (after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot), In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated (William Forsythe), Bella Figura (Jiří Kylián), James in La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte after Philippe Taglioni), Études (Harald Lander), Scheherazade (Blanca Li), Noces (Bronislava Nijinska), Prince Désiré in Sleeping Beauty, The Golden Idol and Solor in La Bayadère, Basilio in Don Quichotte, Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, the Dance Teacher in Cinderella and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Rudolf Nureyev), Frollo in Notre-Dame de Paris, Clavigo (Roland Petit), Un Trait d’union (Angelin Preljocaj), In The Night (Jerome Robbins).