Guillaume Diop from an early age trained to occupy this main role (Core de Ballet)

There Paris Opera appointed this Saturday at Guillaume Diop, 23-year-old dancer, in the Etoile category. It will be the first time a black person has been awarded the coveted ballet rank. This promotion was announced on stage at the end of the performance of Gisele of Diop In Seoul,

The young dancer is propelled to the highest rank of ballet without having to go through the “Première” category for several years, as usual. The range of “Star Dancer(“Star Dancer”) is awarded for rare excellence, and only a handful of dancers have achieved it directly in the past 50 years.

Guillaume Diop is one of the dancers who have recently wondered about the racial issue at the Paris Opera (Core de Ballet)
Guillaume Diop is one of the dancers who have recently wondered about the racial issue at the Paris Opera (Core de Ballet)

Diop, was born in Paris and comes from a Senegalese father and a French mother. He was one of five black or mixed-race authors who published a manifesto in 2020”From the racial question to opera”. Since her Paris Opera debut in 2018, Diop has danced in several Etoile roles, with principal performances in The Bayadere, Don Quixote, Swan lake there Romeo and Juliet. She started dancing at the age of four, before starting her apprenticeship in 2008 at the 18th arrondissement conservatory from Paris. He has been the young promise of the company for over a year.

“I didn’t expect that at all,” he said. Diop to the newspaper Le Figaro, adding: “I hope this will reassure the parents of boys who, like me, want to do this job, but I’m not sure I want to talk about it. Basically, I worked like everyone else”.

Guillaume Diop since joining the Paris Opera has distinguished himself among his peers (Core de Ballet)
Guillaume Diop since joining the Paris Opera has distinguished himself among his peers (Core de Ballet)

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Jose Martinez, dance director of the Paris Opera Ballet, told the newspaper that Diop’s “artistic qualities, charisma and potential” were the reasons for his choice. Additionally, he remarked, “At no time did it occur to me to name him because of the color of his skin. It’s very positive that this happened.”

Source AFP

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