Lycette Darsonval

French dancer

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"Die romantische Ballett" (Paris Opera); Leipzig

Lycette Darsonval (born Alice Andrée Marie Perron, 12 February 1912 – 1 November 1996) was a French ballet dancer.^[1]

She visited Noël Corbu in Rennes-le-Château with the artist Jean Raffy Le Persan (1920-2008) during the 1950s.

Biography

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Lycette Darsonval is the half-sister of dancer Serge Perrault. Dancer in the street in Montmartre, she was spotted and entered the Paris Opera at the age of 23, where, a pupil of Nicola Guerra, she became one of the most prominent performers of the "Lifar generation", promoted to the rank as a prima ballerina in 1940. The title of star not being official until 1941, Solange Schwarz and Lycette Darsonval were the first dancers to bear this title.^[2]

Two bronzes by Jacques Gestalder representing Lycette Darsonval are exhibited at the Bettencourt-Schueller foundation in Neuilly-sur-Seine.^[3]

A portrait of Lycette Darsonval was painted by Serge Ivanoff.

Bibliography

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Martine Cadieu, Lycette Darsonval, Paris, Presses littéraires de France, collection "Danseurs et danseuses", 1951, 19 p. (notice BnF no FRBNF31896532)
Lycette Darsonval, Ma vie sur les pointes, Ed. France-Empire, 1988
Louis Léon-Martin, Les demoiselles d'Opéra, Éditions des portiques, 1930
Serge Lifar, Les mémoires d'Icare, Sauret, 1993
Florence Poudru, Serge Lifar: la danse pour patrie, Hermann, 2007
Gilbert Serres, Coulisses de la danse, France-Europe Ed., 2005