François Alu Étoile

Ballet of the Opera

2004
He enters the Paris Opera Ballet School.

2010
At the age of 17, he is engaged in the Corps de ballet.

2011
He is named ‘Coryphée’

2012
AROP Dance Award and Cercle Carpeaux Award

2013
He is named ‘Sujet ‘

2014
He is named ‘Premier danseur’

2022
On the proposal of Aurélie Dupont, Dance Director, Paris Opera Director Alexander Neef has named François Alu ‘Etoile dancer’ of the Paris Opera, following a performance of La Bayadère (Rudolf Nureyev) on the stage of the Opéra Bastille Saturday April, 23 2022, where he danced the role of Solor.

Repertoire

Alain and Colas / La Fille mal gardée (Frederick Ashton), Djémil / La Source (Jean-Guillaume Bart), Hilarion / Giselle (based on Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot), Iñigo / Paquita (Pierre Lacotte from Mazilier and Petipa), Lescaut / Manon (Kenneth MacMillan), the Golden Idole and Solor / La Bayadère, Basilio / Don Quixotte, The Blue Bird / Sleeping Beauty, Rothbart and Prince Siegfried / Swan Lake, Mercutio / Romeo and Juliet, The Film Producer and Leading Actor / Cendrillon, Abderam and Bérenger / Raymonda / (Rudolf Nureyev), Zane / Kaguyahime (Jiří Kylián), the Chief Bandit / Carmen, Frollo / Notre-Dame de Paris / (Roland Petit), Dances at a Gathering, A Suite of Dances (Jerome Robbins), Palais de Cristal, Themes and Variations, Mozartiana, Rubies and Emeralds / Jewels, The Four Temperaments (George Balanchine) ; Études (Harald Lander).

Paris Opera Creations

Daphnis and Chloé (Benjamin Millepied, 2014), Blake Works I (William Forsythe, 2016), The Seasons’ canon (Crystal Pite, 2016), Play (Alexander Ekman, 2017), The Male Dancer (Ivàn Pérez, 2018), Body and Soul (Crystal Pite, 2019).

Repertoire entries
Les Variations Goldberg and Fancy Free (Jerome Robbins), Herman Schmerman (William Forsythe), Speak for yourself (Sol Leon, Paul Lightfoot)

As part of the official tours of the Paris Opera Ballet, François Alu has danced in Spain (Madrid, 2019), Russia (Novosibirsk, 2018), Japan (Tokyo, 2017), Denmark (Copenhagen, 2015), Quebec (Montreal, 2014)...