Fernand Nault

Fernand Nault (of his true name Fernand-Christmas Boissonneault ) is a dancer and choreographer Québécois, born with Montreal the December 27th 1920 and died with Montreal the December 26th 2006.

He studied the dance near Maurice Marenoff and several large Masters in London, New York and Paris. He in particular was dancer, Master and teaching director in American Ballet Theater of New York in the years 1940, where he remains during 21 years. It is in 1965 qu ' it joined the Great Canadian ballets as an artistic Co-director and a appointed choreographer. It has choreography the badly kept Girl, concerting Danses, Symphonie of psalms, moderated Liberté, Scouine, the Seven deadly sins, Casse-Noisette, Carmina Burana and Tommy. These two last made its fame: its choreography of Carmina Burana was first of all presented at the time of Expo 67 to Montreal before obtaining a world success; as for Tommy, it is about the rock ballet of the British group The Who.

He will also collaborate with the University of dance of Quebec as a professor, and will create choreographies for Washington Ballet, the Ballet Federation off Filipino, Atlanta Ballet, the national Ballet of Korea and Alberta Ballet.

He is deceased on December 26th following the Parkinson's disease. He would have been 86 years old, the following day. A sad death because it died during one of the representations of Nut-cracker, one of its achievements, presented each year to Canada in the time of Christmas.

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Sources

Among the sources having been used for the development of this article, one counts:
  • Canadian Press, the choreographer Fernand Nault dies in 85 years , Journal the Sun, Quebec, Thursday, December 28, 2006, p. A4.

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