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Claude Bessy (born in Paris, October 20, 1932) is a French ballerina, ballet master of the Paris Opera Ballet (1970-1971) and director of the Paris Opera Ballet School (1972–2004). Mlle. Bessy trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School from the age of ten, the youngest student ever admitted, and joined the Paris Opera Ballet at age 13, the youngest ''danseuse'' ever admitted. In 1956 she was promoted to ''étoile'', the Ballet's highest rank. Bessy was closely associated with Serge Lifar and created leading roles in his 1951 ''Snow White'', 1955 ''Noces fantastiques'' and 1958 ''Daphnis and Chloe''. She worked with John Cranko, who made his 1955 ''La Belle Hêlène'' on her, and George Skibine, who made a second ''Daphnis and Chloe'' on Bessy in 1959. Bessy was featured in Gene Kelly's film ''Invitation to the Dance'' (1956), and four years later he created ''Pas de dieux'' at the Paris Opera for her. She also made many television appearances. Bessy has staged ballets for the Comédie Française and Opéra Comique, dances for the musical ''My Fair Lady'' (1984) and continues to stage the ballets of Lifar throughout Europe. As director of the Paris Opera Ballet School she introduced profound reforms to the teaching regime which led to the birth of a new generation of highly technical dancers like Sylvie Guillem, Patrick Dupond, Élisabeth Platel, Marie-Claude Pietragalla, and succeeded in organising the construction of a new school building in Nanterre inaugurated in 1987. == Publications == * ''Danseuse étoile'', 1961 * ''Claude Bessy présente les Ballets classiques de sa vie'', Ed. Hors Collection, 2009. ISBN 978-2-258-07839-0 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claude Bessy (dancer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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