My greatest pride is to have helped nurture talent of dancers and choreographers,” she wrote in the statement.įrançois Alu – recently promoted to the top rank of Paris Opera Ballet dancers – had been someone oddly overlooked for promotion by Dupont and critics took her to task in the press.
I leave this magnificent institution today with a sense of accomplishment. She says that she has “a book, a documentary and a musical” lined up, and that she wishes to devote more time to her family.Ī source close to Dupont told Agence France-Presse: “She always wanted to leave the institution before her 50th birthday, she has been at the Opéra for forty years as a dancer and then director.” Her surprise resignation was accepted by Alexander Neef, director-general of the Paris Opéra. The 49-year-old former étoile with the company has had battles with members of the company as well as receiving negative press from critics about some of her artistic choices, since succeeding Benjamin Millepied as director in 2016.
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