Dorothée Gilbert Étoile

Ballet of the Opera

She has since added to her repertoire : 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).

1995
After studying at the Toulouse Conservatoire, she enters the Ballet School.

2000
She joins the Corps de ballet at the age of 17.

2003
"Coryphée". AROP Dance Prize. She dances the "Pas de deux des paysans" in Giselle (after Coralli and Perrot) and in ballets by Rudolf Nureyev and Balanchine.

2004
"Sujet". Cercle Carpeaux Prize. She dances Emeraudes / Joyaux (Balanchine), O zlozony / O composite (Brown), Pas. / parts (Forsythe), Effie in La Sylphide (Lacotte after Taglioni), Études (Lander) and Kitri in Don Quichotte (Nureyev).

2006
"Première danseuse". Artifact Suite, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (Forsythe), the title role in Paquita (Lacotte after Mazilier and Petipa), Manon in La Dame aux camélias (Neumeier), Gamzatti in La Bayadère, Spring and Summer in Cendrillon (Nureyev), The Bandit Leader in Carmen (Petit).