Hannah O’Neill and Hugo Marchand in Esmeralda pdd

Hannah O’Neill and Hugo Marchand in Esmeralda pas de deux, music by Cesare Pugni, choreography by Nikolay Berezov after Jules Perrot. Benois de la Danse 2016 Laureates Gala, shot on 17.5.2016 in Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.

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Check out all galleries from 2016 Benois de la Danse Laureates Gala

Hannah O’Neill is currently a Premier danseur with Paris Opera Ballet. Hannah studied dance at the Kishibe Ballet Studio (Tokyo) and the Australian Ballet School. In 2009 she won Lausanne Prize. In 2011 Hannah
joined the Paris Opera Corps de Ballet, 2014 became Coryphée. Won silver medal at the Varna Competition and Prix du Cercle Carpeaux. In 2015 she was promoted to Sujet and 2016 to Premier. In 2016 she won The Best Ballerina Benois de la Danse prize.

Hugo Marchand is currently a Premier with Paris Opera Ballet. Hugo is trained by the Paris Opera Ballet School (2007-2011), in 2011 joined the Corps de Ballet at Paris Opera, 2014
became Coryphée, 2015 Sujet, Cercle Carpeaux Award.

Photos by Jack Devant Ballet Photography with kind permission of the Benois de la Danse and Bolshoi Theatre, special thanks to Nina Kudriavtseva-Loory and Regina Nikiforova.