MaddieRose Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 (edited) French-language newspapers are beginning to report on the death of dancer and choreographer Pierre Lacotte. https://www.letemps.ch/culture/deces-pierre-lacotte-larcheologue-ballet https://www.parismatch.com/culture/spectacles/pierre-lacotte-le-grand-choregraphe-de-ballet-est-mort-91-ans-223994 Hugo Marchand has also posted about Lacotte on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq2vreJNz1C/?hl=en Edited April 10, 2023 by MaddieRose 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Oh, this gets to me! What a lover of the great classical ballet traditions and excellent stager! I met him in 2003 in StP during the early ONDINE stagings. May he Rest In Peace. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaddieRose Posted April 10, 2023 Author Share Posted April 10, 2023 The tribute of the Paris Opera & Ballet: https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/info/tribute-to-pierre-lacotte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estreiiita Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Oh, what a pity! A great person and a great choreographer! I saw him at the premiere of "The red and the black" and even had a chance to speak to him and get his autograph. His legacy will continue to live. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oncnp Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 From the BBC Pierre Lacotte: French dancer who helped Rudolf Nureyev defect dies - BBC News Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 So very sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miliosr Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 It's been a year of losses for the Opera - first with the deaths of the etoiles Michael Denard and Attilio Labis and now with the death of Pierre Lacotte. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeralds Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 (edited) Oh no 😢....Lynn Seymour and Pierre Lacotte both in the same year... what a very sad loss. 😢😢Two pillars of my dance world. His numerous wonderful reconstructions, eg La Vivandiere, Le Papillon, The Pharaoh’s Daughter, Marco Spada, Ondine, La Fille du Danube, etc and his own choreography eg La Nuit est une Sorcière, Intermede, Numeros (the latter two for Ballet Rambert) and the recent Le Rouge et Le Noir for the Paris Opera Ballet. So many enjoyable evenings in the theatre or, if I couldn’t actually travel across the world to catch them live, so many, many enjoyable hours rewatching on video or dvd [when I should have been doing boring tasks instead]. He also did set and costume designs, eg for Le Rouge et Le Noir. But my first experience of his choreography was actually his reconstruction of a pas de deux and solo from a ballet danced by Marie Taglioni, with the quirky name of “Nathalie, or The Swiss Milkmaid”, for Paris Opera Ballet etoile -and his wife- Ghislaine Thesmar. He also directed his own ballet company after retiring from dancing (as premier danseur at Paris Opera Ballet), and later on, was artistic director of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, the ballet of Opera di Verona, and Ballet National de Nancy et de Lorraine. Those who followed the news of Nureyev’s defection or later saw the documentary Rudolf Nureyev-Dance to Freedom, will have known that he and other Paris friends helped Nureyev to defect from the Soviet Union. (In the documentary, Lacotte was portrayed by Denis Aliev, in the film The White Crow, he was portrayed by Raphael Personnaz.) Rest in peace, Pierre, and merci beaucoup for all your beautiful productions. My condolences to his widow Ghislaine and his loved ones. Edited April 11, 2023 by Emeralds 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 The Bolshoi Ballet's tribute to Pierre Lacotte : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iLkSZnu949U 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 The obituary written by Ismene Brown in the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/04/14/pierre-lacotte-obituary-ballet-dancer-nureyev-defect/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Thanks, Jan, but maybe you could rephrase that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 4 minutes ago, alison said: Thanks, Jan, but maybe you could rephrase that? Whoops - re-written! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Thanks - the original gave me a fright! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 Pierre Lacotte 2023 - Tribute with Maximova, Nureyev, Novikova, Osipova, Obraztsova, Ganio and more!" на YouTube: https://youtu.be/kNAVHXDsHLY 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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