Paris (AFP)
François Alu, principal dancer at the Paris Opera, will join the jury of the show "Dance with the stars", whose broadcast date on TF1 has not yet been revealed, the channel announced on Thursday on its networks social.
After two years of absence due to a health crisis, the show, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2019, will return for its 11th edition.
At 27, the one who dances at the same time classical ballet, contemporary and hip-hop - and who has been nicknamed the "bad boy" of the Opera - will succeed dance legend Patrick Dupond, deceased last March, who joined the show's jury in 2018.
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Originally from Fussy, near Bourges, François Alu was encouraged at the age of three by his mother, a dance teacher, to take a course.
"Alone boy", he's a bit of the Billy Elliot of school.
Except that the ballet did not attract him.
Love at first sight occurs at the age of 10, when he sees the star Patrick Dupond in a documentary, he told AFP in 2018.
He entered the Paris Opera Ballet School in 2004, before joining the Opera Ballet Corps at the age of 17, until he became principal dancer in 2013.
In 2018, he took the stage at the Théâtre Antoine in Paris, and presented "Hors Cadre", a show created with Samuel Murez.
Beside him in the jury, the great couturier Jean Paul Gaultier, who bowed out with his last haute couture show in January 2020, as well as the dancers Denitsa Ikonomova and Chris Marques (ballroom dance champions).
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