Stéphane Bullion

Stéphane Bullion (born in 1980) is a French ''Etoile'' dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet.

Stéphane Bullion started dance at age eleven and entered the Paris Opera Ballet school at age fourteen (1994). He joined the corps de ballet in 1997. During his school years, he danced twice at the School annual show (1996 and 1997), in Serge Lifar's "''Le Chevalier et la demoiselle''" and George Balanchine's '' Western Symphony''.
He became Coryphée in 2001, Sujet in 2002 and Premier danseur in 2007.

He has been appointed Etoile, the highest grade of the company, in 2010 after his performance of Solor in Rudolf Nureyev’s version of ''La Bayadère''.

Career

He danced the Faun in Vaslav Nijinsky's '' L'après-midi d'un faune'' based on Claude Debussy's ''Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune'' while still a Coryphée in 2001 and has been chosen by Yury Grigorovich''.
Cast at first in villain's roles in the Rudolf Nureyev's versions of classics where they are major roles (Abderam in ''Raymonda'', Tybalt in ''Romeo and Juliet'' or Rothbart in ''Swan Lake''), his promotion to Premier danseur in 2007 gave him access to romantic roles like Armand in John Neumeier’s ''The Lady of the Camellias'', Jean de Brienne in Nureyev’s ''Raymonda'' or Albrecht in Bart’s version of Corrali-Perrot’s staging of ''Giselle''. While still favouring these main roles in Nureyev's repertoire after he reached the status of Etoile, he dances Siegfried in Swan Lake or Lucien d'Hervilly in Pierre Lacotte’s ''Paquita'' as well.

A tall and powerful dancer, he has, since the beginning of his career, often been chosen by choreographers to create or introduce their ballets in Paris Opera Ballet’s repertoire.

World creations: ''AndréAuria'' ( Edouard Lock - 2002), ''MC14/22, Ceci est mon corps'' (2004), Ananda, ''Siddharta'' (2009) (Angelin Preljocaj), ''Répliques'' (2009) and ''Sept mètres et de mi au-dessus des montagnes'' (2017) ( Nicolas Paul), Eros, ''Psyché'', (Alexei Ratmansky - 2011), Vaudémont (the prince) in ''The Nutcracker'' (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Edouard Lock and Arthur Pita) in ''Iolanta-The Nutcracker'' directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, 2016, ''Play'' (Alexander Ekman - 2017)

Creations on Paris stage: Morel (''Proust or the heart's intermissions'' - Roland Petit- 2007), L’homme (''The House of Bernarda'' - Mats Ek - 2008), l’Ame - (''Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler''-John Neumeier - 2009), Mikado (''Kaguyahime'' - Jiří Kylián - 2010), ''Die Grosse Fuge'' (Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker- 2015), ''Die Verklärte Nacht'' (Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker- 2015), ''Polyphonia'' (Christopher Wheeldon- 2015), Titania's cavalier ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' - George Balanchine

Stéphane Bullion is a favourite of Roland Petit (''Proust or the heart's intermissions'','' Le Loup'', ''L’Arlésienne'', ''Le Jeune Homme et la Mort'','' Carmen'', ''Notre-Dame de Paris'' ), Angelin Preljocaj (''MC14/22'', ''Le Songe de Médée'', ''Siddharta'', ''Le Parc''), Nicolas Le Riche (''Caligula''), John Neumeier (''The Lady of the Camellias'', ''The Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler''), etc.

Acknowledged as a fine partner, he danced with Paris Opera Ballet guests from Russian companies in Rudolf Nureyev's ballets: With Svetlana Zakharova from Bolshoi Ballet in ''La Bayadère'' as Solor and in ''Swan Lake'' pas de de trois as Rothbart. He also partnered Maria Alexandrova from Bolshoi Ballet in ''Raymonda'' as Abderam and Ulyana Lopatkina from Mariinsky Ballet as Rothbart in ''Swan Lake''. With Lyon Opera Ballet, he danced Don José in Roland Petit ''Carmen'' with Polina Semionova (American Ballet Theatre and Staatsballett Berlin)

International invitations: In 2007, French choreographer Jean-Guillaume Bart asked him to dance Conrad, the main role in ''le Corsaire'' for the creation of his reconstitution of the ballet in Yekaterinburg (Russia).
Additionally, as international guest in various ballet companies, he has been invited by the choreographer Yury Grigorovich with the Kremlin ballet in 2005.

Other invitations includes Jerome Robbins In the Night in 2013 at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma where he danced the main role in ''Le Parc'' by Angelin Preljocaj in 2016 and Roland Petit Le Jeune Homme et la Mort in 2017. Stéphane Bullion is also touring with the Roman company with ''Le Jeune Homme et la Mort''.

In Austria, he danced Prince Siegfried in Rudolf Nureyev Swan Lake at the Vienna State Opera in 2015 with Royal Ballet principal dancer Marianela Núñez.

French photographer Anne Deniau has elaborated a project around Stéphane Bullion dancing on a beach 24 hours in a row which resulted in a bilingual book and a film in 2012, ''24 hours in a man's life''.

He is Chevalier of Arts and Letters

Repertoire

Main roles (Paris Opera Ballet) :

*George Balanchine : ''Agon, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Concerto Barocco, Jewels, The Four Temperaments, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Symphony in C, La Valse, Stravinsky Violin Concerto''
* Patrice Bart : ''La Petite danseuse de Degas''
*Pina Bausch : ''Orpheus und Eurydike'', ''Rites of Spring''
*Maurice Béjart : ''L'Oiseau de feu'', ''Le Mandarin merveilleux'', ''Le Boléro''
*Kader Belarbi : ''Wuthering Heights''
* Rafael Bonachela : ''AB ntra'
*Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Edouard Lock and Arthur Pita : ''The Nutcracker'' in ''Iolanta-The Nutcracker'' directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov
* Carolyn Carlson : ''Signes''
* Dimitri Chamblas and Boris Charmatz : ''À bras-le-corps''
*John Cranko : ''Onegin (Cranko)''
*Birgit Cullberg : ''Miss Julie''
*Nacho Duato : ''White Darkness''
*Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot : Giselle''
*Mats Ek : ''Apartment'', ''The House of Bernarda''
*Alexander Ekman : ''Play''
*Yury Grigorovich

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