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Léa Fleytoux
Paris, France
Joined ABT 2018
Biography
Photo: Anita Buzzy Prentiss and Rachel Neville.
Léa Fleytoux began studying ballet at the age of four with Nicole Chouret in her classes at the Ranelagh Theater in Paris. Fleytoux continued her training at the Conservatoire Municipal Camille Saint-Saens (2007-2010), École National Danse Marseille (2010-2013) and Conservetoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (2013-2016). She participated in summer programs at Biarritz Academy, Paris Opera Ballet School and Alvin Ailey.
Fleytoux began training at the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in September 2016 before joining ABT Studio Company in January 2017. She became an apprentice with the main Company in December 2018 and joined the corps de ballet in June 2019. Her repertoire includes the Grand Pas de Deux and Amour in Don Quixote, the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, Chencha in Like Water for Chocolate, one of the Nutcracker’s Sisters and the Chinese Dance in Alexei Ratmanky’s The Nutcracker, the pas de trois, a little swan, and the Hungarian Princess in Swan Lake, Young Clarissa in Woolf Works, and a featured role in Songs of Bukovina. She created a featured role in Collage & Creed.
ABT is grateful to Denise Littlefield Sobel and the Margaret King Moore Dancer Award for supporting the Dancer Fund in honor of Léa Fleytoux.
Upcoming Performances
2:00 pm
David H. Koch Theater
Gemma Bond World Premiere
Repertoire
* created role
- Collage & Creed - Featured Role*
- Don Quixote (McKenzie/Jones) - Kitri (Grand Pas de Deux); Amour
- Giselle (McKenzie) - peasant pas de deux
- Like Water for Chocolate - Chencha
- The Nutcracker (Ratmansky) - Nutcracker's Sister; Chinese Dance
- Songs of Bukovina - Featured Role
- Swan Lake (McKenzie) - pas de trois; Little Swan; Hungarian Princess
- Woolf Works - Young Clarissa