Wilfride Piollet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wilfride Piollet

French dancer

Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1943

Place of Birth: Saint-Rambert-d'Albon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 20-Jan-2015

Profession: choreographer, ballerina

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Wilfride Piollet (28 April 1943 – 20 January 2015) was a French ballerina and choreographer.
She was born in Saint-Rambert-d'Albon.
Her philosophy of dance and her research led to the publication of several books.
Piollet joined the Paris Opera Ballet company in 1960.
She gained the rank "coryphée" in 1963, "sujet" in 1964, soloist in 1966, and was promoted to principal dancer (étoile) in 1969.
In 1973, Nouvelle lune c-à-d (Andy Degroat) was created for her retirement of the Paris Opera.
Invited as a guest by Rudolf Nureyev, she danced at the Paris Opera until 1990, the year when Jean Guizerix left (Carte Blanche).
At the Paris Opera and worldwide, she performed the classical, neo-classical and contemporary repertory, and from the 1980s, the Baroque and Renaissance ones.
She ended her dance career in 2003 with a piece on Isadora Duncan's dances studied with Madeleine Lytton, and performed with Jean Guizerix.