Jerome Tisserand

PNB Corps de Ballet

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Jerome Tisserand © Angela Sterling

Jerome Tisserand is from Lyon, France. He trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School, with Pascale Courdioux in Lyon, and at the School of American Ballet. He joined Miami City Ballet as an apprentice in 2006 and Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2007.

Mr. Tisserand won second prize at the 2003 Dance Festival of Artists in Nyon, Switzerland, and first prize in the 2004 Prix Carpeaux in Valentiennes, France.

Leading Roles

George Balanchine's Coppélia (Franz), Emeralds, The Four Temperaments, and Serenade; Ulysses Dove's Red Angels and Serious Pleasures; William Forsythe's One Flat Thing, reproduced; Ronald Hynd's The Sleeping Beauty (Bluebird pas de deux); Jiri Kylian’s Petite Mort; Jean-Christophe Maillot's Roméo et Juliette (Acolyte); Jerome Robbins' West Side Story Suite (Tony); Susan Stroman's TAKE FIVE...More or Less; Twyla Tharp's Afternoon Ball, Nine Sinatra Songs, and Opus 111; and Christopher Wheeldon's Carousel (A Dance).

Originated Leading Roles: Benjamin Millepied's 3 Movements.

Featured Roles

Balanchine's Symphony in C and Kent Stowell’s Nutcracker and Swan Lake.

At Miami City Ballet, Mr. Tisserand performed works by George Balanchine, Marius Petipa, and Twyla Tharp. He also performed as a student with Paris Opera Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet School, at the School of American Ballet in works by Benjamin Millipied and Christopher Wheeldon, and for the New York Choreographic Institute in works by Charlotte Griffin, Paul Julius, and Miao Zong.

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