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Laurent Hilaire (born November 8, 1962) is a French ballet dancer. Regarded as one of the greatest dancers to emerge from ballet over the past few decades, he was an etoile (principal dancer) of the Paris Opera Ballet for 22 years. From 2011 he was the associate artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet and a ballet master with the company since 2005〔. 〕 ==Career== Hilaire joined the Paris Opera Ballet school in 1975 and entered the company's corps de ballet in 1979, aged 17.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://fiches.lexpress.fr/personnalite/laurent-hilaire_195877/biographie ) 〕 On November 2, 1985, he was promoted to etoile (a top-billing principal dancer) by Rudolf Nureyev after a performance of Swan Lake.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.nureyev.org/rudolf-noureev-directeur-etoiles-nommees/ ) 〕 Laurent Hilaire became a ballet master with the company in 2005, occasionally performing as an etoile until he made his farewell performance on February 14, 2007. For it he performed George Balanchine's ''Apollo'' and Maurice Bejart's ''Song of A Wayfarer,'' in which he was partnered by Manuel Legris. After his farewell performance Hilaire was awarded Commander of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the highest rank of the order.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/actualites/conferen/donnedieu/deco-hilaire2007.html ) 〕 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「Laurent Hilaire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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