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Ballet dancer, Sylvie Guillem

Ballet dancer, Sylvie Guillem

The Interview vor 10 Jahren

After more than 3 decades at the top, Sylvie Guillem is retiring from ballet.

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For more than three decades the ballet dancer Sylvie Guillem has
performed as principal dancer at most leading ballet
establishments, redrawing the boundaries of the genre. But at the
end of this year she will be giving her last performance in a
worldwide farewell tour. She will undoubtedly go down in ballet
history as one of the greatest dancers of all time - but she is
famously been dubbed 'Mademoiselle Non' for being too assertive.
Zeinab Badawi speaks to her about that as well as the poisonous
rivalries in the world of ballet and her activism to save the
planet.

(Photo: Prima ballet dancer Sylvie Guillem of France delivers a
speech at a press conference in Tokyo. Credit: TOSHIFUMI
KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images)