THOMAS DOCQUIR
Star Dancer
of the Paris Opera Ballet
Thomas Docquir began classical dance at the age of 8 in Namur, Belgium and joined the Paris Opera School of Dance at the age of 12 before joining the body of the Ballet of the National Opera of
Paris at 17. Promoted to Coryphée in 2017, he was appointed Subject in January 2020. He then danced in the great ballets of the classical repertoire such as La Bayadère, Roméo et Juliette, Le Lac des Cygnes, Raymonda and Cendrillon by Nureyev, Giselle after Coralli and Perrot , La Sylphide by Pierre Lacotte, Oneguine by John Cranko, La fille Mal Gardée by
Frederick Ashton, Jewels and A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Balanchine. He also takes part in the creation of contemporary pieces such as The Season’s Canon by Crystal Pite in 2016 and At the Hawk’s Well by Hiroshi Sugimoto. He took part in the new version of the Nutcracker ballet by Edouard Lock during the evening in homage to Tchaikovsky imagined by Dmitri Tcherniakov and danced in Die Grosse Fugue by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. In February 2019, he danced for the first time as a soloist the role of Rothbart in Swan Lake by Nureyev at the Opéra Bastille – a role he resumed in July 2019 at the Shanghai Grand Theater during the Asia tour. of the Opera Ballet. He has since added to his
repertoire the role of Béranger by Raymonda, the pas de deux of the peasants of Giselle by Patrice Bart, Espada of Don Quixote, the golden idol of La Bayadère and the pas de deux of entertainment in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Having particularly distinguished himself during the 2019/2020 season, Thomas Docquir receives the AROP prize in 2021.
He takes part in the official tours of the Paris Opera: in the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, 2019), in China (Shanghai, 2019), in
Singapore (2019), Japan (Tokyo, 2020) and France (Aix-en-Provence, 2022).
In July 2022, he participated in the “Ballet Gala of Etoiles in Paris” in Seoul, South Korea.
He was promoted to Premier Danseur in 2024 and was named Étoile dancer following a performance of La Bayadère by Rudolf Nureyev, in the role of Solor, in June 2026.
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