Patrick Armand

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Patrick Armand is a French retired ballet dancer, and the director of the San Francisco Ballet School since 2017.

Early life[]

Armand was born in Marseille, France, where he studied with , his mother , and at the .[1][2] In 1980, he won the Prix de Lausanne.[1][2]

In 1981, he joined the , rising to principal dancer in 1983.The same year he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier award for his performance of Bejart's songs of a wayfarer which he performed with Rudolf Noureev From 1984 to 1990, he was with English National Ballet as a principal dancer, and then joined Boston Ballet.[1][2]

Armand has been a jury member of the Prix de Lausanne on several occasions since 1998. He served as ballet master and also as a faculty member at Teatro all Scala in Milan until 2010. It was at this point that he took over as the Principal of the San Franscisco Ballet School Trainee program.[3]

From 2012 to 2017, Armand was associate director of the San Francisco Ballet School, when he succeeded ,[1][4] becoming director in 2017.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Patrick Armand Biography". school.sfballet.org. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "Patrick Armand - Prix de Lausanne". Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Patrick Armand". Youth American Grand Prix. YAGP. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  4. ^ "S.F. Ballet School's Armand has the credentials". Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  5. ^ "Faculty". www.sfballet.org. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
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