The dancer, director and choreographer Pierre Rambert, who for nearly forty years was the ballet master of the Parisian cabaret Le Lido, died Wednesday in Paris at the age of sixty-nine from a heart disease, a announced to AFP her husband Fernand Eveillé.
Pierre Rambert, as his last assistant, was also the artistic legatee of Margaret Kelly, alias "Miss Bluebell", who created the standards of the Lido troupe - dancers with endless legs and haughty bearing, both chic and glamour.
He succeeded him in 1984.
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Forty years of cabaret
Trained by the choreographer Boris Kniassef and Serge Peretti (who was the first man to be named star of the Paris Opera in 1941), Pierre Rambert was one of the first dancers of the review
Zizi, je t'aime
du chorégraphe Roland Petit, with Zizi Jeanmaire headlining.
He joined Le Lido in 1977, where he created and directed the magazines
C'est Magic!
and
Bonheur
, also presented in Russia, the United States, South America and China.
In 2009, the ballet master participated in the documentary
Les Garçons du Lido
by Louis Dupont, as part of an anthology on the male body.
"There have always been boys in Lido magazines
,
"
Pierre Rambert told AFP.
“For a long time, they didn't really matter.
Even if the paintings remain in the glory of the girls, the dancers now have a real responsibility in the show, in a seductive interaction with the Bluebell Girls
[name of the dancers of the institution, Editor's note]
”
.
Read also: From languid swaying to leg lifting, we danced with the girls from the Lido
Pierre Rambert left the Lido in 2015 and staged, in 2018, a new production of
La Traviata
by Verdi at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, also on the bill at the Opéra national de Bordeaux last year.
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