Jennifer Goube

Jennifer Goubé is a French ballet dancer and dance teacher.

Goubé entered the dance school of the Paris Opera at the age of eleven . From the age of fifteen she appeared at the opera, from the age of twenty she had solo roles in choreographies by Jerome Robbins ( l'Après-midi d'un faune ), Serge Lifar (Aricie in Phèdre ), Kenneth MacMillan ( Métaboles ), Maurice Béjart ( Serait-ce la mort? ), John Neumeier (Hermia in Le Songe d'une nuit d'été ) and William Forsythe ( France Dance ). She went on a European tour with Rudolf Nureev 's troupe Noureev & Friends .

At Neumeier's invitation, she appeared in 1987 with the Hamburg Ballet in Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake . With Neumeier's company she appeared as prima ballerina in As You Like It at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris in 1991 and in Peer Gynt at the Paris Opera in 1991 . Then she went on several international tours until 1994.

In 1993 Goubé received the state diploma as a teacher of classical dance and in 1995 the certificate of proficiency as a dance teacher. In 1995 she took over the management of the Center de Danse de Paris Goubé at the Salle Pleyel , which was founded in 1969 by her parents Paul and Yvonne Goubé . From 1996 she gave master classes in Tokyo at the invitation of Asami Maki . In 1998 she founded the Etoiles de l'Europe , consisting of eight to ten dancers , with whom she performed classical and modern ballet pieces at various festivals in Europe. In 2004 she gave master classes at the Universal Ballet in Seoul. In 2005 she moved with the Center de Danse de Paris Goubé to the 17th arrondissement and renamed the school the Goubé European Dance Center .

Web links

• Goubé European Dance Center
• Jennifer Goube in the Internet Movie Database (English)