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Patrick Armand | |
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| Born | Marseille, France |
| Education | Ecole de Danse de Marseille |
| Occupation(s) | Ballet dancer and director |
| Years active | 1981–present |
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| Awards | Prix de Lausanne (1980) |
Patrick Armand is a French retired ballet dancer, and the director of the San Francisco Ballet School [1] since 2017.
Armand was born in Marseille, France, where he studied at the Ecole de Danse de Marseille. [2] [3] In 1980, he won the Prix de Lausanne. [2] [3]
In 1981, he joined the Ballet Théâtre Français, rising to principal dancer in 1983. The same year, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier award for his performance of Maurice Bejart's Songs of a Wayfarer, which he performed with Rudolf Nureyev. From 1984 to 1990, he was with English National Ballet as a principal dancer, and then joined Boston Ballet. [2] [3]
Armand has been a jury member of the Prix de Lausanne on several occasions since 1998. He served as ballet master and also as a faculty member at Teatro alla Scala in Milan until 2010. It was at this point that he took over as the Principal of the San Francisco Ballet School Trainee program. [4]
From 2012 to 2017, Armand was associate director of the San Francisco Ballet School, when he succeeded Lola de Avila, [2] [5] becoming director in 2017. [6]
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