For almost two months, Cécile Chaduteau is the new professor of stage expression at the star Academy. Long a dancer, the one who was part of Kamel Ouali’s troupe for several years and who notably worked on the musical Cleopatra and on several paintings from previous seasons of the Star Acsucceeded Laure Balon, who held this position last year, or even Raphaëlle Ricci, who masterfully played him during five of the first eight seasons of the program, stopped in 2018 due to lack of audience.
In a portrait dedicated to him Paris Match this Thursday, December 21, 2023, Cécile Chaduteau opens up like never before about her professional journey and about the trials of life she had to face. Modest, discreet but very emotional as we can see during the evaluations of the students of the star Academythe professional revealed that she lost her first love in tragic conditions, since the man was killed in a plane crash, at the very moment when the two lovebirds were together in the title roles of the play Don Quixotedirected by Rudolf Nureyev: “I was really moved and honored to be able to dance Don Quixote with my lover, who unfortunately two and a half months later was killed in a plane accident” she soberly explained.
Her boyfriend’s name was Pierre
A role that Cécile Chaduteau should not have obtained originally, because if her boyfriend at the time was Rudolf Nureyev’s first choice, the latter had chosen another woman to play the leading female role. But a little helping hand from destiny allowed Cécile Chaduteau to obtain the role she so hoped for: “Pierre had the main role, he danced with the street dancer in this ballet. There came the day before the premiere, a dress rehearsal. And lead dancer falls and sprains“ explained the one who today shows herself to be very attentive to Academicians, and more particularly of Hélénawhich seems to be his favorite adventure.