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,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AM on July 11, 2011