Directeur de la San Francisco Ballet School
Lauréat du Prix de Lausanne 1980
Professeur de classique pour le Prix de Lausanne 2020
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Name: Patrick ARMAND
Birthplace: Marseille, France
Training: Colette Armand and Rudy Bryans. Ecole de danse Roland Petit (Marseille), Centre de Danse Rosella Hightower, School of American Ballet (New York).
Prix de Lausanne: Prize winner 1980. Jury Member 1998, 2009. Teacher and Coach from 2010 to today.
Previous companies/positions:
Current company/position: Director, San Francisco Ballet School.
Favorite roles/choreographies: All the dramatic story ballets, specially Lensky (Cranko), Romeo (Ashton, Cranko), L’Arlesienne (Petit), Albrecht etc…
Career highlight: Just the pleasure to be on stage and dancing has been an immense privilege. Performing with Noureev Bejart’s Song of a wayfarer, my partnership with Trinidad Sevillano. Meeting and working with so many wonderful people ( Elizabeth Anderton, David Wall, Sergei Berejnoi etc..).
Message to the Prix de Lausanne organisation: “Thank you all at the Prix de Lausanne to exist and to help so many young dancers achieve their dreams!”