competition. His private students have been accepted at the Paris Opera Ballet School and as company members at American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet and North Carolina Dance Theatre. Perron also taught ballet at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre and is currently teaching classical partnering at Juilliard. Perron was the coach, for the entire Broadway run, of the title role in "Billy Elliot". Perron is an ABT National Curriculum certified teacher (pre-primary to Level7) and an ABT Artistic Board of Examiner. Personal life Perron comes from a family of dancers: The title of "Etoile" was created for his aunt Lycette Darsonval (Premiere Danseuse étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet who was in the original cast of "Symphony in C" by George Balanchine. His uncle Serge Perrault was a principal with Roland Petit and his mother was part of the Paris Opera Ballet. References French male ballet dancers French emigrants to the United States Ballet teachers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people