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On the proposal of José Martinez, Director of Dance, Alexander Neef, General Director of the Opéra national de Paris, appointed Roxane Stojanov, Star Dancer of the Opéra national de Paris on the stage of the Opéra Bastille, to the The result of the performance of the ballet Paquita by Pierre Lacotte in which she played the title role on Saturday December 28, 2024.
Born in 1995, Roxane Stojanov grew up in North Macedonia where she started dancing at the age of eight in a small school before continuing her training in Brussels, Belgium. She entered the Paris National Opera Dance School in 2007, and in 2013, she joined the Paris National Opera Ballet Corps.
Promoted to “Coryphée” in 2016, she received the Cercle Carpeaux Dance Prize in 2017. In 2018, she was promoted to “Subject”, then “First Dancer” in 2022.
Since joining the Company, Roxane Stojanov has participated in numerous ballets in the repertoire: Giselle
(after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot), La Sylphide et Paquita (Pierre Lacotte), Etudes (Harald Lander), La Belle
at Bois Dormant; The Nutcracker, Notre-Dame de Paris (Roland Petit) …
