Jean Babile died

On Thursday, January 30, in Paris, at the 92nd year of life, a choreographer, choreographer and dancer Jean Babilea died.

It is reported by AFP .

Jean Babile (Jean Gutman) was born in 1923, from 1936 to 1940 he studied the art of dance at the School of the Paris Opera, his teachers were Gustav Rico and Boris Knyazev. During the Second World War, Babil entered the ranks of resistance and fought in Turny.

After the war, Babile returned to the stage, from 1945 to 1949 he was a leading dancer of the Ballet of the Champs Elysees, created by Roland Petit and Boris Kokhno. The famous artist played the role of a young man in the ballet "Young man and death" by Roland Petit to Bach's music.

In the 1950s, Babile danced in the Paris Opera, La Scala and the American Ballet Theater, then departed from the ballet for a long time, devoting himself to the dramatic theater and cinema.

As a choreographer, Babile for the first time tried himself in the ballet of the Champs Elysees, in 1956 he founded his own company, in 1972 he was the artistic director of the Rhine ballet.

In the late 1970s, a meeting of Jean Babile with Maurice Bezhar took place. The great choreographer created the Ballet "Life" for Babile, in which he danced from 1979 to 1985.

The cavalier of the Order of the Honorary Legion, the commander of the Order of Arts and Literature, the officer of the French Order “For Merit”, Jean Babile, did not leave the scene until old age - at the age of 80, he dented the main role in the performance of Joseph Naja “There is no more heavenly vault”.