Τhe music & dance Gala, the French tradition in Andros is a unique performance, created specifically for the Festival of Andros.
You can read the full programme to the following link Agglika
Photos, from the rehearsal of the dancer’s group in Paris
Photo credits by Remy Deshayes
Artist’s bios:
Allister Madin
Dancer & Choreographer
Paris Opera Ballet Sujet
Choreographies
2016
ANDROS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
World premières : Caspian Suite – Médianoche – Class-Concert A. Madin (Music, E. Akimova)
Choreography supervision
2015
SALON MUSICAL – Palais Garnier – Paris Opera
– Amores (music – John Cage – third mouvement)
– Heures Dansantes (music Ph. Glass – Opening)
– Adagio, Pas de deux, (music T. Albinoni)
La Chabotterie, Saint Sulpice Le Vernon
2014
Nocturnes Baroques. 18e Festival MUSIQUES – La Chabotterie – St Sulpice Le Vernon
Duo Barocco (Air des sauvages – Les Indes Galantes, J.-Ph. Rameau )
Jeunes danseurs chorégraphes – Paris Opera (Amphithéâtre Bastille)
2013
– Kaléidoscope, 2011 – El Fuego de la Passion
– Fantaisie Libertine and Errances d’une Geisha, Saint Leu church – Paris
Dancer
Main roles – Paris Opera Ballet
International performances
Bolshoi, Moscow – 2014
A Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev, Badminton theater – Athens, 2013
Abderam / Raymonda (Acte II, R. Nureyev – 1983)
Pas de deux / Don Quichotte (R. Nureyev – 1981)
Season 2015-2016
Clear, Loud, Bright, Forward (B. Millepied – creation)
Mercutio / Roméo et Juliette (R. Nureyev – 1984)
Season 2014-2015
Zaël / La Source ( J.-G. Bart – 2011)
L’Anatomie de la sensation (W. MacGregor – 2011)
Le Chef des mendiants / l’Histoire de Manon (MacMillan – 1974)
Pas de trois / Danse napolitaine / Le Lac des Cygnes (R. Nureyev – 1984)
Season 2013-2014
Awarded AROP Dance Prize (Association pour le Rayonnement de l’Opéra de Paris)
Dorcon / Daphnis et Chloé (B. Millepied – creation)
Le Chef des brigands / Carmen (R. Petit – 1949)
Chat botté – L’Oiseau bleu / La Belle au bois dormant (R. Nureyev – 1966)
L’Oiseau Phénix / L’Oiseau de feu (M. Béjart – 1970)
– HautVol Shortfilm-L. de Caunes,
choreography – B.Millepied, Pas de deux over the roofs of the Palais Garnier with L. Baulac
Season 2012-2013
Chef des gitans / Don Quichotte (R. Nureyev – 1981)
l’Idole dorée, Le Fakir, la Danse Indienne / La Bayadère (R. Nureyev – 1992)
Alain / La Fille mal gardée (F. Ashton – 1959)
Kaguyahime (J. Kylian, 1988)
Pas de deux des Écossais / La Sylphide (P. Lacotte – 1972, a er M. Taglioni)
2011 – Promoted Sujet, Zaël / La Source (J.-G. Bart – 2011)
2010 – Inigo / Paquita (P. Lacotte – 2001)
2008 – Promoted Coryphée
2005 – Joins the Corps de Ballet
1999 – Enters the Paris Opera Ballet School
1996 – Starts studying dance in Biarritz at the age of 10 years old
A.Madin has Basques origins
Roxane Stojanov
International French Ballerina
Paris Opera Ballet Coryphée
International performances
2016
21 August – 2nd International Festival of Andros, Music & Dance Gala, The French Tradition in Andros
20 May – Guest dancer – French Classical Ballet performance – Dubai Dance Academy-Dance for the Future
Pas de deux 3rd act/ Sleeping Beauty
France (Bordeaux, Enghein-les-bains, Toulouse, Deauville, Biarritz)
Cendrillon – The Tabouret pas de deux, Pas de deux act 3 – Swan Lake
China
Balck Swan/ Swan Lake – Pas de trois of the 3rd act, Pas de trois
La Sylphide, Friends of Kitri / Don Quichotte
Paris Opera Ballet School
Toronto – Péchés de jeunesse
Stuttgart – Pas de quatre / Swan Lake Bourmeister version
London – Démonstration of the French style
Paris Opera Ballet
Season 2015-2016
– Promoted Coryphée
First place for imposed Variation – le Grand Pas Classique-(Victor Gsovsky), Free Variarion-Four Seasons, the Fall Variation (J.Robbins)
– Indian soloist – first soloist role – / La Bayadère (R. Nureyev – 1992, L. Minkus)
– Rosaline’s friends / Roméo & Juliette (R. Nureyev- 1984, S. Prokofiev)
– The vendangeurs and the 24Wilis / Giselle (J. Coralli & J. Perro -1841, A. Adam)
– 12 girls / Goldberg Variations (J. Robbins, J.-S. Bach )
– Clear, Loud, Bright, Forward (B. Millepied, N. Muhly)
Season 2014-2015
– Ballerinas in black/ Etudes (H. Lander, C. Czerny)
– The Waltz, the 24 swans and the fiancés / Swan Lake (R. Nureyev – 1984, P. I. Tchaikovsky)
– The parents, The snowflakes / The Nutcracker (R. Nureyev – 1985, P. I. Tchaikovsky)
– The peasants / La Fille mal gardée (F. Ashton – 1960, F. Hérold)
Season 2013-2014
-Enters the Paris Opera Ballet
– Dryads, The waltz, The Sarabande / Sleeping Beauty (R. Nureyev – 1966, P. I. Tchaikovsky)
– The Prieuses / Notre Dame de Paris (R. Petit – 1965, M. Jarre )
Paris Opera Ballet School
2013
– First Pas-de-deux/ Youthful indiscretions (J.-G. Bart – 2000, G. Rossini)
– Hélène/ La Nuit de Walpurgis (C. Bessy after L. Saats, C. Gounod)
2012
– Le Trio/ Symphonie en trois mouvements (N. Christe, I.Stravinsky)
– La jeune Fille / Le Bal des cadets (D. Lichine, J. Strauss son)
– The dancer in yellow / Variations (V. Verdy – 1979, J. Brahms)
– Pas de deux des Écossais / La Sylphide (P. Lacotte – 1972, after M. Taglioni)
Biographical material
2007 – enters the Paris Opera Ballet School
2004 – enters the Ballet School in Brussels
2002 – starts dancing in a small school in Macedonia
Laura Fridman
Ballerina, Choreographer & administrator
2016
2nd Andros international festival
Administrator, Music & Ballet Gala, The French tradition in chora Andros
2011
Yale Ballet Company assistant in organization
Choreographies
2016
ANDROS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL – World premières :
Pas de deux – Coeur ! (Music, E. Akimova), Variation – Desiderata (Music, E. Akimova)
Dancer
2016 – Student of Gilbert Mayer
2015
Yale Ballet Company – USA, danced principal roles in performances
Yale’s oldest and most prestigious dance company, Yaledancers – USA
2011
Paris Regional Conservatory – graduated with the highest honors in ballet
Institut International de Danse Stanlowa -Paris, Ballet training
Camille de Bellefon
International French Ballerina
Paris Opera Ballet Quadrille
International performances
2016
21 August – 2nd International Festival of Andros, Music & Dance Gala
The French Tradition in Andros
Carte Blanche Espace Julien Green, Andresy, France
2013
Vienna State Ballet
La Sylphide, Don Quixote, Pas de six from Chabukiani’s Laurencia for “Creation and Tradition” a Vienna Volksoper Evening,
Vienna State Ballet Nureyev Gala
demi-soliste in girl of Barcelone
Étés de la Danse
Gypsy, Dryade, and Maid of Honor in Don Quixote – Châtelet theater.
Paris Opera Ballet
Season 2015-2016
Quatuor Nº4 (Theresa De Keersmaeker, music Bela Bartok)
Les Applaudissements ne se Mangent pas (Maguy Marin)
Azion théâtrale – Capriccio-Richard Strauss, Patterns of Life at the Pompidou Center
Bayadere
Season 2014-2015
Rain Ch. Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker
Orpheus and Euridice – Pina Bausch
Season 2014-2015
Promoted Quadrille
Dancers Choreographers Evening at Bastille Paris Opera Amphiteater.
2010
Tecnhology Baccalauréat, Danse Option
Examination Performance on a Peter Van Dyke choreography, music by Frantz Shubert
2009
joins the Paris Opera Ballet
Giselle, Nutcracker, Bayadere, the Pina Bausch Rite of Spring, Proust ou les Intermittences du Coeur, la Fille Mal Gardée or Vain Expectations, in Mats Ek choreographies.
2008
Lausanne Prize in a Sleeping Beauty variation and a Nocturne.
First Prize Paris Conservatory, awarded unanimously.
joins the Paris Conservatory Junior Ballet. Draws the attention for her interpretation in Aureole-Paul Tailor
Camille de Bellefon had been coached by Evandra Martins at the Jennifer Goubé European Dance Center Paris.
2004-2008, CNSMDP, Paris Conservatory.
Camille de Bellefon is filmed in“Un jour je serai danseuse-One Day I will be a Dancer“, a ballet documenary film by Julie Lojkine who spent one year filming the dancers at the Paris Conservatory.
2003, Conservatoire National de Région.
Born in 1990 in Lannion, Côtes d’Armor where she starts dancing at the age of six in a Ballet School created by Yvan Perronno and Catherine Collignon retired Paris Opera Ballet Sujets.
Matthieu Botto
French Dancer
Paris Opera Ballet Choryphée
International performances
2016
Music & Dance Gala, The French Tradition in Andros
2015
VOGUE Italia, October Issue, photos and trailor.
2013
Soloists and Dancers from the Paris Opera at the Jacob’s Pillow Festival Birkshires (Troisième Étage Samuel Murez), Désordres (Choreography Samuel Murez). Festival de Musique de St. Barthélémy (pas de deux, Bayadere).
Paris Opera Ballet
Season 2015-2016
Grande Fugue and la Nuit Transfigurée-Verklarte Nacht in Cosy (choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker), Romeo and Juliette (leader of the Capulet, Nureyev), The Goldberg Variations-J.S.Bach (Jerome Robbins), The Rite of Spring (Pina Bausch).
Season 2014-2015
Etudes (Harold Lander), The Song of the Earth by Gustave Mahler (John Neumeier), Histoire de Manon (Kenneth MacMillan), Les Enfants du Paradis (José Martinez), La Source (Jean Guillaume Bart), Nutcracker (Nureyev), L’Anatomie de la Sensation (Wayne McGregor)
11 May – Incidences Choregraphiques – Music & Dance Evening
2014, GLANCE, Short Film with Hugo Vigliotti and Cyril Choukroun also from the Paris Opera Ballet.
Season 2012-2013
The Gypsy in Don Quixote (Nureyev), Le Loup and Carmen (Roland Petit)
Season 2009-2010
Kaguyahime (Jiri Kylian)
2008, promoted Choryphée
2006, joins the Paris Opera Ballet
2005-2006
Paris Opera Ballet School Demonstrations (Adage)
1999, enters the Paris Opera Ballet School
Mickaël Lafon
French Dancer
Paris Opera Ballet Coryphée
International performances
2016
21 August – 2nd International Festival of Andros
Music & Dance Gala, The French Tradition in Andros
20 March, Ballet Gala – La Nuit des Étoiles
Grand Pas Classique (Victor Gsovsky)
Pas de Deux with the Paris Opera Étoile Myriam Oulde-Braham – La Nuit s’achève (Benjamin Millepied)
8 Jan, New Year Gala, Guangzhou Opera House
Grand Pas de Deux – Act three – Raymonda (Nureyev), Matador – Act one – Don Quixote (Nureyev- 1981), The Final Etudes (Music – K. Czerny, Chor. – H. Lander)
Main roles – Paris Opera Ballet
Season 2015-2016
Benvolio – Romeo and Juliette (chor. Nureyev)
Giselle (chor. Patrice Bart)
Season 2014-2015
30 April – Paris Opera Ballet Young Dancers and Ballerinas Evening
Fugitif ( chor. Sébastien Bertaud )
11 May – Incidences Choregraphiques – Music & Dance Evening
Yourodivy (chor. Bruno Bouché)
Arabian Dance Solo, Chinese Dance – Nutcracker (chor. Nureyev)
Dance Pas de Trois – The Song of the Earth ( Music – Gustave Mahler / chor. J. Neumeier)
Season 2013-2014
Fugitif (excerpt),
Le Palais de Cristal in Two Couple – 4th Mouvement (chor. G. Balanchine)
Season 2012-2013
Tricentennial Gala, Aunis (chor. J. Garnier 1979)
Nov. – Congratulation by the Jury of the Paris Opera Interior Promotion Competition for the quality of his performance, his return on scène and his attitude after his injury.
2009
Nov, age 21, promoted Choryphée
Mazurkas – Etudes, Suite en Blanc
2008-2009
Dancer with the flute, La Fille Mal Gardé,
Vain Precautions (Frederic Ashton)
2007
Joins the Paris Opera Ballet
2005-2006
Paris Opera Ballet Demonstrations in Lyon
Scaramouche (creation – chor. J. Martinez -2005)
1999
Des Racines et des Ailes – Y. Demol
Television film about the Paris Opera Ballet school
1997
Enters the Paris Opera Ballet School
Mickaël Lafon is Model at City Models, and Coach Cycling
ELLINA AKIMOVA
Russian & French musician Composer
Pianist – Paris Opera Ballet School
Andros international festival
Chora Andros New open theater
2016 – Music & Ballet gala, The French Tradition in Chora Andros
Caspian Suite – Médianoche – Classe-concert A. Madin
Desiderata – Arythmia – Coeur ! – La Rambla
2015 – Musical evening – Dimitri Polemis Tribute organised by the Kaireios Library
Performed her own musical compositions – Piano solo
Musical Compositions
– The Snow Queen (2008/2013)
– Chamber Music : Un Bonheur Parfait
Suites for piano :
Southern Dreams – Nine Essays (2001)
Camille (2002-2004), The Seagull (2002) La Danse accompagnée – collection (2000-2016)
Pianist
2000 – Paris Opera Ballet School
1990-1995, Bolshoi Dance Academy – Moscow
1992-1994, Moiseyev Ballet School Studio – Moscow
1986-1990, Azerbaidjan State Academic Ballet School Piano and Musicology studies in Baku
Season 2015/2016
– juillet 2016
Stage international de l’Ecole de danse de l’Opéra de Paris, Nanterre
Stage international European Dance Center Paris Goubé, Gran Theatre del Liceu, Barcelone
– Paris University Orchestra (directed by C. Dourthé), Ecume, Chevauchée (P. Muzard, arr. F. Trollet, orch. & arr. E. Akimova), Star Wars (Extracts – J. Williams), La Strada (Extracts – N. Rota), Grand amphithéâtre de la Sorbonne
– L’Ombre des Guermantes – Château de Chimay, Belgium
– La Grande tradizione francese nella Danza
Stage intensivo – G. Mayer & N. Cavallin, Maison de la Danse (D. Ganio), Rome
– Christmas Recital, Saint Jacut de la Mer Abbey, Brittany, France
– Paris Opera Ballet School Demonstrations – Palais Garnier
Première division lles (F. Gaïda) & Classe d’adage (W. Romoli)
Paris Opera Performances
2014 – Concerto en Ré (music – J.-S. Bach / choreography – C. Bessy)
Paris Opera Orchestra, non-public recording, directed by M. Stieghorst, Bastille Opera Paris Opera Ballet School Performances – Palais Garnier
– Concerto en Ré – Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire (directed by M. Stieghorst)
TSUEY-YING TAI
Born in Taiwan. Tsuey-Ying Tai studies percussion with professors Ya-Wen Lien, Tzang-Ching Ju and Sarah Tsai at Taipei Chung-Cheng senior high school and Taipei National Institut of the Arts, where she won the First Prize of Kuan-Du Festival Competition. In 1996, she went to France and further studied with Professor Sylvio GUALDA at the Versailles Conservatoire. After receiving the First Prize for percussion performance, she was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire (CRR de Paris) where she studied with Professors Frédéric MACARE and Éric SAMMUT.
In 2000, she was finalist at ARD International Music Competition;
In 2001, she won the scholarship of the Music Foundation, Europe;
In 2002, she won the First Prize of 3rd World Marimba Competition inStuttgart;
In 2003, she received an award for her performance in the “Young Stars Concerts Series” at Taiwan Theater Concert Hall”;
In 2003 also, she joined the Taiwan National Symphonic Orchestra as 2nd timpanist and percussion player;
Tsuey-Ying Tai has been invited to perform with the Taiwan Philharmonic Orchestra, with the Ensemble 2e2m, etc…
She also performed at the invitation of the International Watch Co.IWC in Taipei and at the request of the Groupe LVMH she joined a concert tour in New York, Paris, Firenze, Manchester, Shanghai and Hong Kong. In recent years she has been invited as a member of the jury for PAS Paris Percussion Competition, Taipei International Marimba Competition and PAS Greece Percussion Competition.
Tsuey-Ying Tai is currently 1st Percussionist Solo at the Opera National de Paris