Monique Arabian

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Monique Arabian (born in the 20th century ) is a French ballet dancer and teacher .

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Arabian studied with Youra Tchérémessinoff , a student of Vera Trefilova and Lubov Egorova . She began her career in Zurich, where she received solo roles under the direction of Nicholas Beriozoff in such pieces as Sleeping Beauty , Swan Lake , Roméo et Juliette , Les Sylphides and Don Quichotte .

In 1968 Hanna Voos engaged her as a solo dancer at the Ballet de Wallonie . Here she danced in Sleeping Beauty , La Favorite and Daphnis et Chloé after the choreography by Boris Skibine as well as Francesca da Rimini and Roméo et Juliette under the choreographer Boris Tonin . At the invitation of Jean Dorcy , she danced the Dying Swan and Carlotta Grisis Part in Pas de Quatre in Paris, choreographed by Anton Dolin .

As a guest of the Yugoslav National Ballet she took on leading roles under the choreographer Tonin in ballet performances of Sleeping Beauty , the Symphonie Fantastique , the Firebird and the Eighth Symphony by Dvorak. On a tour of the ballet through Belgium, Holland and Yugoslavia, she was Milorad Miskovich's partner in the Symphonie Phantastique. After appearances as Odile in Swan Lake in Germany and Switzerland, she danced in Italy in Firebird and the Variations by Miloslav Kabeláč .

Jean Giuliano invited her to Toulouse for performances of Pulcinella and the creatures of Prometheus . With Cyril Atanassoff she appeared as the fairy dragee in The Nutcracker . After an accident she had to give up her career as a dancer and founded the Académie Chaptal in Paris , where u. a. teach the prima ballerina of the Paris Opera , Suzanne Lorcia , Daniel Franck , professor at the Paris Opera Ballet School, Nora Kiss and, since 2000, Jean Giuliano.

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