Dominique Khalfouni

Dominique Khalfouni is a French ballet dancer who entered the Paris Opera Ballet School at the age of nine, joined the corps de ballet when she was 16 and became the company's étoile/star in 1976. In addition to dancing the leads in many of the classics, she performed roles created for her in Kenneth MacMillan's "Métaboles", Oscar Araiz' "Adagietto", Maurice Béjart's "Serait-ce la Mort" and Roland Petit's "Le Fantome de l'Opéra". In 1980 she left Paris to join the Ballet National de Marseille and the following year she appeared with the American Ballet Theatre at the invitation of Mikhail Baryshnikov, to dance "Giselle" at the Metropolitan Opera House with him.