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Benjamin Millepied is a French dancer and choreographer, who has lived and worked in the United States after joining the New York City Ballet in 1995, where he became a soloist in 1998 and a principal in 2002. He has also created choreography for the company, and choreographed pieces for other major companies. He retired from NYCB in 2011. He initiated the LA Dance Project, leading it from 2011 to 2014. He was Director of Dance at the Paris Opera Ballet from October 2014 and resigned in 2016. He is known for his work in the movie Black Swan (2010), which he choreographed, and in which he starred as a dancer. Millepied met actress Natalie Portman on the set of Black Swan in early 2009 and reportedly left his live-in girlfriend at the time, Isabella Boylston, a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, to begin a relationship with the actress. Millepied and Portman wed in a Jewish ceremony held in Big Sur, California on 4 August 2012. The family lived in Paris for a time, after Millepied accepted the position of director of dance with the Paris Opera Ballet. They have two children: a son Aleph (b. 2011) and a daughter Amalia (b. 2017). In January 2014, Millepied said he was in the process of converting to Judaism (his wife's faith). In 2016, the family moved from Paris to Los Angeles. [Description above from the Wikipedia article Benjamin Millepied, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.]
Benjamin Millepied
Choreographer
for Choreographer in The Phantom of the Opera
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Set in 1881 beneath the lavish Opéra Populaire in Paris, the story follows Christine Daaé, a young chorus dancer who has been secretly trained by a mysterious tutor she believes is the "Angel of Music." This tutor is actually the Phantom, a brilliant but severely disfigured musical genius who haunts the opera house and manipulates its management through terror. When the Phantom forces the resident prima donna to quit, Christine steps into the spotlight and becomes an overnight sensation. However, her sudden success catches the attention of her wealthy childhood sweetheart, Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, sparking a passionate romance that drives the Phantom into a mad, obsessive jealousy.As the Phantom's demands on the opera management turn deadly, he abducts Christine to his subterranean lair amidst a labyrinth of flooded catacombs. He forces her to choose between a life of captivity with him to save Raoul’s life, or freedom at the cost of her lover's execution. In a climactic confrontation, Christine shows the Phantom profound empathy by kissing his scarred face, an act of pure compassion that shatters his vengeful heart. Moved by her grace, the Phantom releases the young lovers and vanishes into the shadows, leaving behind only his iconic white mask as the authorities close in
