Roland Petit: a career in clips

From Hollywood musicals to a Pink Floyd ballet, Roland Petit's choreography raised the bar – and hemlines – of dance for everTwo enduring loves span the life of French choreographer Roland Petit, who died yesterday at the age of 87: one was dance, the other was a dancer, Renée ("Zizi") Jeanmaire. He encountered them both at the age of nine, when he entered the Paris Opera Ballet School in 1933; Jeanmaire, also nine, was a student there.Petit joined the Paris Opera Ballet at the age of 16, b...

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