‘A Paris Opera Ballet Étoile on Being Young, Gifted and Successful’ - Jonas UNGER c/o BIRD PRODUCTION photographs Hugo Marchand, Étoile of the Opéra National de Paris, for the NEW YORK TIMES
“Ballet is about talent, putting in the work, the right body type – but also about dying to perform on stage. That is my best talent: I love ballet so much, I would die for it.”
Jonas UNGER c/o BIRD PRODUCTION photographed the young primo ballerino, aka Étoile of Opéra National de Paris, Hugo Marchand, for the NEW YORK TIMES. Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris is the ballet ensemble of the Paris Opera. It is located in Paris’ Palais Garnier and consists of 154 dancers in total – with twenty first solo dancers (étoiles) and fourteen first dancers (premiers danseurs), nearly all of whom trained at the company’s own ballet school École de Danse de l’Opéra in Nanterre outside of Paris. Hugo Marchand began dancing at ....
