Manuel Legris

What strikes me about Manuel Legris is the rare arc of a career that just kept ascending. Twenty-three years as a danseur etoile at the Paris Opera Ballet is already a full life, yet he reinvented himself as a director, first leading the Vienna State Ballet and then taking the reins at La Scala. To me that says he never saw dancing and shaping a company as separate vocations. The Legion of Honour and the Prix Carpeaux confirm the esteem, but I'm more drawn to the quiet stamina of someone who stayed at the very top of an unforgiving art for decades and then chose to build for others.

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Name (English)

Manuel Legris

Name (Japanese)

マニュエル・ルグリ

Reading

まにゅえる・るぐり

Born

October 10, 1964 (age 61)

Origin

Paris, France

Occupation

choreographer / dancer / ballet dancer / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dragon

Awards & achievements

• Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
• Legion of Honour
• Prix Carpeaux
• Nijinsky Award
• Danseur Étoile

• Official sitehttp://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/staatsballett_neu/allgemeines/Allgemein.en.php
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Legris
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1860542

Tags

• choreographer
• dancer
• ballet dancer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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