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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 5, 2021 18:22:10 GMT
Patrick Dupond, one of the star ballet dancers of the Opéra de Paris, died today at age 61 of an unspecified "lightning disease." At age 31 he had replaced Rudolf Nureyev as dance director at the opera. He was fired for indiscipline when he accepted to be a member of the jury of the Cannes film festival. In 2000, he had a car accident which resulted in 134 fractures, and he was informed that he would never dance again. He spent two years on morphine and then spent another year getting off morphine. He still appeared and danced in a musical comedy after this, and later he was a judge for Dancing with the Stars... (definitely going downhill now). In 2007 his house was destroyed by a fire. In recent years, he was part of a dance school in the provinces and put on shows mixing classical and Middle Eastern dance.
Some people seem to live a multitude of lives in a very short time.
age 17
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 5, 2021 18:39:21 GMT
LIghtning disease? That’s shocking.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 12, 2021 17:04:04 GMT
Questa - do you remember him or when Rudolf Nureyev was still dancing with Margaret Barbeiri? Or even Svetlana Beriosova? Personally not being much in the ballet world, I do not know of him. What is Lightening disease?
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 12, 2021 17:40:13 GMT
In French, a "maladie foudroyante" (lightning disease) is a sudden disease that kills you very quickly, without warning.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 14, 2021 16:16:33 GMT
Like pancreas cancer maybe...
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Post by questa on Mar 15, 2021 1:46:34 GMT
Or Australia's famous melanoma
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