Throwback Thursday and Janine Charrat
Born in France in 1924, Janine Charrat was a child star in
the 1937 movie Ballerina. She began
choreographing at age fourteen, and later in life gave concerts with Roland
Petit in Paris from 1940-1944. In 1946 she was a ballerina with Nouveau Ballet de Monte Carlo, where she
danced in ballets by Serge Lifar and others.
In 1951 she formed her own company that toured in the U.S.,
Europe and Japan. In 1959 she worked with
Maurice Béjart, assisting in the reorganization of the Brussels Theatre
de la Monnaie.
In December 1961, her career was interrupted due to an
accident in a television studio in Paris. She was rehearsing Les
Algues when her costume caught fire. Although burned over much of her body,
she recovered and returned to work 540 days later, starring in a ballet in
Switzerland.
She went on to direct the Geneva Ballet in Switzerland and
then opened her own studio in Paris.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Dance History Factoid #71:
“Janine Charrat was child star and multi-talented French ballerina.
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