Dancer and choreographer, she was an emblematic personality of the choreographic scene since the 1940s. She died on the night of September 14 to 15, at the age of 97.
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What a trajectory! The dancer and choreographer Françoise Dupuy, an emblematic personality of the choreographic scene since the 1940s, also a pedagogue and passed by the post of inspector at the Ministry of Culture in the mid -1980s, illuminated the scene like behind the scenes. “It’s a dancing queen that goes out,” said Brigitte Lefèvre on Facebook, a former dance director at the Paris National Opera. A queen, but magically simple, whose presence was registered wherever it is with precision and determination.
This exceptional woman died in her sleep, at home, in Paris, on the night of September 14 to 15. Her husband and creation partner Dominique Dupuy was with her as he has always been. “We knew each other in dance for seventy-five years, we lived, worked and created for sixty and eleven years,” he says.
“forever, you are the immense, the only Françoise Dupuy, dancer, artist, researcher, pedagogue. forever, you are with us all who have had the happiness of seeing you, Meet, receive your teaching and dance with you, “wrote the choreographer Régine Chopinot on Facebook.
Françoise Dupuy, née Michaud, in 1925, in Lyon, is the receptacle of contrasting techniques which she was able to braid in a silhouette and a unique writing, both formal and crystal clear, releasing bright electric waves. She is 5 years old when she took her first classical dance lessons at the Lyon Opera, before diving into the Dalcroze rhythm.
At the same time, she is passionate about music, which she studies with César Geoffray, as well as painting, with Albert Gleizes. Intensely curious, she discovered a taste for the theater during the war and collaborates with Jean-Marie Serreau. In 1946, she moved to Paris and further diversified her training, notably with the Mime Etienne Decroux. Constantly, she moves her talent, her technique, upsets her skills to garner new resources. In 1946, she joined the company Jean Weidt (1904-1992), where she met Dominique Dupuy.
militant artists
Four years later and the departure of Weidt in Germany, the couple occurs as a duo under the name of “Françoise and Dominique” in cabarets, galas. They founded the modern ballets of Paris in 1955. Together, they created shows but do not just occur in theaters. They animate workshops, make activities in schools, factories, for works councils … Until 1978, these militant artists overflowing with energy multiplied on all fronts, claiming dance as an accessible art of proximity to all.
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