Benjamin Millepied
Benjamin Millepied was born in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France on June 10th, 1977 and is the Dancer. At the age of 46, Benjamin Millepied biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Benjamin Millepied (born 10 June 1977) is a French dancer and choreographer, who has lived and worked in the United States after joining the New York City Ballet in 1995, where he became a soloist in 1998 and a principal in 2002.
He has also created choreography for the company, and choreographed pieces for other major companies.
He retired from NYCB in 2011. He initiated the LA Dance Project, leading it from 2011 to 2014.
He was Director of Dance at the Paris Opera Ballet from October 2014 and resigned in 2016.
He is known for his work in the movie Black Swan (2010), for which he choreographed the dances and in which he starred as a dancer.
Early life
Millepied was born in Bordeaux, France. He is the youngest of three sons. His ballet training started at the age of eight with his mother, Catherine Flory, a former ballet dancer. His father is Denys Millepied. Between the ages of 13 and 16, he studied with Michel Rahn at the Conservatoire National in Lyon, France.
Personal life
Millepied met actress Natalie Portman on the set of Black Swan in early 2009 and reportedly left his live-in girlfriend at the time, Isabella Boylston, a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, to begin a relationship with Portman. Millepied and Portman wed in a Jewish ceremony held in Big Sur, California on 4 August 2012. The family lived in Paris for a time, after Millepied accepted the position of director of dance with the Paris Opera Ballet. They have two children: a son Aleph (b. 2011) and a daughter Amalia (b. 2017). In January 2014, Millepied said he was in the process of converting to Judaism (his wife's faith). In 2016, the family moved from Paris to Los Angeles.
Career
Millepied attended classes at the School of American Ballet (SAB) in 1992 and returned to study full-time, with a French Ministry scholarship (Bourse Lavoisier or Lavoisier Scholarship). Millepied was mentored by choreographer Jerome Robbins early in his career, who expressed an interest in him. He was a principal participant in Jerome Robbins' debut of 2 and 3 Part Inventions at the SAB's 1994 Spring Workshop, as well as the Prix de Lausanne.
Millepied debuted in 1995 and was named principal dancer in 2002 after being promoted to soloist in the New York City Ballet's corps de ballet.
Millepied converted to dance for City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, the School of American Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera, the Paris Opera Ballet, Ballet de Genève, and his own company, Danses Concertantes. He served as choreographer-in-residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York from 2006 to 2007.
Millepied will retire from New York City Ballet after the news on October 26.
The Los Angeles Dance Project, founded and directed by Millepied, was launched in 2011 with a commission from Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Los Angeles Music Center. The company's operating budget is about $1 million a year. Millepied founded the company with composer Nico Muhly, composer Charles Fabius, composer Nicholas Britell, and Matthieu Humery. The Los Angeles Theatre Center's full-time residence was established in 2012 with the intention of presenting new works throughout the city. The inaugural performance of the Los Angeles Dance Project, commissioned by The Music Center, was held at Walt Disney Concert Hall on September 22, 2012.
Amanda Wells, a Millepied and Los Angeles Dance Project dancer, created "Framework" at the Museum of Contemporary Art later this year. Moving Parts, a Millepied premiere starring Mohly and Christopher Wool, was included in the first performance collective's first program. In addition, a revival of Merce Cunningham's 1964 Winterbranch, a movement exploration of fallen bodies with a mostly two-note score by La Monte Young, and William Forsythe's Quintett, a 1993 research on loss and desire to avant-garde composer Gavin Bryar's composition Jesus Never Failed Me Yet. Rodarte, Barbara Kruger, and Alex Israel, a young California painter and video artist, are among Millepied's collaborators.
On April 23, 2013, Millepied's premiere of "Reflections" took place at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. In 2013, the L.A. Dance Project's in Amsterdam, Istanbul, Spoleto Festival in Italy, Edinburgh International Festival, La Maison de la Danse in Lyon, France, and Sadler's Wells Theatre in London were all on tour. The company premiered two new pieces in September 2013. The first premiere of Murder Ballads was staged by Justin Peck with Bryce Dessner's music. The premiere of Morgan's Last Chug choreographed and with light and sound design by Emanuel Gat was next on the agenda.
The Theatre at Ace Hotel will be the project's new home venue in January 2014. The L.A. Dance Project's three-year collaboration with the LUMA Foundation in Arles, France, had allowed the nine-member company a continuing residency and performance space in the foundation's Parc des Ateliers by June 2016. The L.A. Dance Project will spend five weeks in Arles, where the group will be able to function, design, and produce.
Millepied had accepted the role of dance director in January 2013. On October 15, 2014, Brigitte Lefèvre took over.
Millepied hired William Forsythe as an associate choreographer and consultant on the new Academy's in-house training program for choreographers during his time at the Paris Opera Ballet. Millepied's first season began with a celebrity-filled gala that raised over a million euros. He also created a digital platform for new work and coordinated dancer swaps with the Mariinsky and American Ballet Theaters.
Millepied appears in Relève, a ballet film by Thierry Demaicière and Alban Teurlai starring Millepied as the first director of the Paris ballet premiered in France on Canal+ in December 2015. Later that year, as Reset, the Tribeca Film Festival held its North American premiere.
On February 4, 2016, Millepied resigned from the Paris Opera Ballet and was replaced by Aurélie Dupont.
Millepied has been commissioned and collaborated with contemporary composers such as David Lang, Nico Muhly, Daniel Escaich, Daniel Ott, and Philip Glass. Millepied's work and support have been funded by the Jerome Robbins Trust and Foundation, including philanthropist Anne Bass and Arlene Cooper.
Millepied's dancing was motion-captured for the animated children's film Barbie in the Nutcracker in 2001, as well as that of other New York City Ballet dancers. His dancing was captured for the 2003 Barbie film Barbie of Swan Lake.
In 2009, he was choreographer for Black Swan, a psychological thriller starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as ballet dancers in New York City. In addition, he performed and appeared in the film. He was the leading man in a short film directed by Asa Mader and starring Léa Seydoux, called Time Doesn't Stand Still in 2010.
Millepied founded The Amoveo Company, a multimedia production company and an art group in 2012. He has produced a number of short films in collaboration with various artists, including Mark Bradford, Philip Glass, IO Echo, Zeds Dead, and Lil Buck.
Millepied, a Los Angeles Music Center board member and television presenter Nigel Lythgoe, was a guest judge on So You Think You Can Dance, a dance competition on August 22, 2012.
Millepied, a senior dancer with the New York City Ballet, Jenifer Ringer, and James Fayette were among the Artistic Advisors of the Colburn School in Downtown Los Angeles in 2014.