Janine Charrat

Janine Charrat is a Danseuse, Chorégraphe and French director of Ballet born with Grenoble the June 24th 1924.

It very quickly forges a reputation of child prodigy of the dance and, at twelve years, it is the interpreter of film of Jean Benoit-Levy the Death of the swan . Protected by Serge Lifar, it meets Roland Petit and forms with him the couple high-speed motorboat of the choreographic universe. In 1945, it creates for the Ballet of the Fields-Élysées Card deck , its first ballet, then founds its own company in 1951, the Ballets Janine Charrat , called a time the Ballets of France .

For Paul Valéry, the young wonder is the reincarnation of sound Atictée in the Heart and the dance . It inspires Paul Claudel which writes for it the Woman and her shade . She works with the greatest creators of her time, such as Darius Milhaud, Léonore Fini, Paul Delvaux or Fernand Leger. Jean Cocteau said of it “ Janine Charrat, solitary walker, goes beyond the stars ”.

In 1961, it cosigne with Maurice Béjart the Four Wire Aymon .

Seriously burned on a plate of television this same year, it puts all its energy to be restored and goes up on the boards the year sivante. Of 1962 with 1964, it directs the ballet of the Opera of Geneva and, in 1978, it becomes adviser for the dance with the National center of art and culture Georges-Pompidou to Paris.

Ballets

Catalog of films

External bonds

  • Janine Charrat on Internet Dance DataBase
  • Its catalog of films on IMDB
  • '' Janine Charrat, instinct of the dance ''

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