The 28-year-old dancer was distinguished at the end of the representation of “La Bayadère”, Saturday, April 23rd.
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Crazy, crazy, crazy! Acclamations, screams, whistles, absolute charivari, Saturday, April 23, at the Opera Bastille in Paris, for the appointment of François Alu to the star grade of the National Opera of Paris. At the end of the representation of the Ballet La Bayadère, Alexander Neef, director of the institution, and Aurélie Dupont, director of the dance, appeared as the tradition on the side of the plateau. No sooner had Neef finished his speech that the 2,700 spectators, waiting, shouted their joy for aluminum, which taught hand in hand with his two partners, Dorothée Gilbert and Bianca Scudamore. “All three, we said we were a football team, not a typo, just goals!” He confided the next day of the evening.
Star! At last ! Eight years after being promoted first dancer of the Parisian troop, Alu, 28, won the ultimate title. Few performers are waiting for so long. “I did not believe it too much and I had detached myself,” he recognizes. But if the path was not short, he allowed me to think about the choices I wanted to do, to find ‘other ways themselves unlikely and to be what I am today. “François Alu Dance, plays the comedy, is coach, made of cinema, written and currently turns a one man show, directed with Samuel Murez, too moving that epatant entitled completely thrown! “The adversity was finally beneficial to find my place and be myself,” he adds. As for the status “stellar” – his favorite word since Saturday -, if coveted, he considers it as “a coronation of [his] freedom of artist.”
François Alu’s coronation took place in a particular and unpublished atmosphere for the opera. The appearance for ten years of a fan-club of passionate, that the televisional benefits of the young man for dance with the stars have doped, triggered a movement of revolt against what they felt an injustice, the non-nomination of their idol at the rank of star. The case took, Wednesday, April 20, in Bastille, the tone of an uprising. Disappointed that AU, backwards for the first time after a bayader injury, is not finally distinguished, they chant for long minutes: “Alu star, Dupont resign!” An incredible manifestation in a context where the appointment , more or less secret until the big day, is in the hands of the direction of the opera.
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