"Die romantische Ballett" (Paris Opera); Leipzig

Lycette Darsonval (born Alice Andrée Marie Perron, 12 February 1912 – 1 November 1996) was a French ballet dancer.[1]

She visited Noël Corbu in Rennes-le-Château with the artist Jean Raffy Le Persan (1920-2008) during the 1950s.

Biography

Lycette Darsonval is the half-sister of dancer Serge Perrault. Dancer in the street in Montmartre, she was spotted and entered the Paris Opera at the age of 23, where, a pupil of Nicola Guerra, she became one of the most prominent performers of the "Lifar generation", promoted to the rank as a prima ballerina in 1940. The title of star not being official until 1941, Solange Schwarz and Lycette Darsonval were the first dancers to bear this title.[2]

Two bronzes by Jacques Gestalder representing Lycette Darsonval are exhibited at the Bettencourt-Schueller foundation in Neuilly-sur-Seine.[3]

A portrait of Lycette Darsonval was painted by Serge Ivanoff.

Bibliography

  • Martine Cadieu, Lycette Darsonval, Paris, Presses littéraires de France, collection "Danseurs et danseuses", 1951, 19 p. (notice BnF no FRBNF31896532)
  • Lycette Darsonval, Ma vie sur les pointes, Ed. France-Empire, 1988
  • Louis Léon-Martin, Les demoiselles d'Opéra, Éditions des portiques, 1930
  • Serge Lifar, Les mémoires d'Icare, Sauret, 1993
  • Florence Poudru, Serge Lifar: la danse pour patrie, Hermann, 2007
  • Gilbert Serres, Coulisses de la danse, France-Europe Ed., 2005

References

  1. ↑ Relevé des fichiers de l'Insee
  2. ↑ "5 choses étonnantes que vous ne savez pas sur les danseurs étoiles", Europe 1, retrieved 2022-11-21
  3. ↑ "Article sur les bronzes de Jacques Gestalder". Archived from the original on 2012-08-02.

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