Remembering Roland Petit on his birthday 🎂
📷 Jean Mounicq, Paris, 1962
"He was a visionary choreographer who created roles that could change you artistically, aesthetically, technically, as a dancer."
- Aurélie Dupont
Roland Petit & Violette Verdy in a pas de deux from the Roland Petit Ballet Company production of Ballet du Loup
📷 Gjon Mili for Life magazine, 1954
I love this shot of Roland Petit & Zizi Jeanmaire by Jean Mounicq
Versailles, 1962
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The two were married from 1954 until Petit died in 2011. Today we're celebrating his birthday 🎂
Roland Petit, Jean Cocteau & Zizi Jeanmaire by Frank Horvat
Paris, 1958
A Willy Ronis photograph of three friends:
Jacques Prévert, Roland Petit & Brassaï
Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, Paris, 1945
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Zizi Jeanmaire & Roland Petit by Inge Morath, 1957
"Proust ou les intermittences du coeur", ballet choreographed by Roland Petit for the Opéra de Paris. The lead dancer here is Mathilde Froustey
📷 Colette Masson, Opéra Garnier, 2007
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