Pierre Gardel: Télémaque (1790), Psyché (1793), Le Jugement de Pâris (1793), La Dansomanie (1800) Louis Milon: Les Noces de Gamache (1801, in collaboration with Gardel) Philippe Taglioni: La Sylphide (1832) Jules Perrot: Giselle (1842) Jean Coralli: Giselle (1842) George Balanchine: Le Palais de cristal (Symphony in C) (1947) Carlo Blasis Arthur Saint-Léon: Coppélia (1870) Louis Meranté: Sylvia (1876) Serge Lifar: Les Créatures de Prométhée (1929), Icare (1935), Istar (1941), Suite en blanc (1943) Kenneth MacMillan: Métaboles (1978), Les Quatre Saisons (1978) Rudolf Nureyev: Raymonda (1983), Swan Lake (Le Lac des cygnes) (1984), Romeo and Juliet (1984), The Nutcracker (1985), La Bayadère (1992) Maurice Béjart: Arepo (1986) William Forsythe: In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated (1987), Woundwork I, Pas./Parts (1999), Blake Works I (2016) Angelin Preljocaj: Le Parc (1994), Annonciation (1996), MC/14-22 (Ceci est mon corps) (2004), Le Songe de Médée (2004) Roland Petit: Notre-Dame-de-Paris (1965), Clavigo (1999) Pina Bausch: Le Sacre du printemps (1997), Orpheus et Eurydice (2005) Wayne McGregor: Genus (2007), L'Anatomie de la sensation (2011) Sasha Waltz: Romeo and Juliet (2007) Saburo Teshigawara: Air (2003), Darkness is Hiding Black Horses (2013) John Neumeier: La Dame aux Camélias (2006), Song of the Earth (2015) }} Dancers There are five ranks of dancers in the Paris Opera Ballet; from highest to lowest they are: Danseur Étoile, premier danseur, sujet, coryphée, and quadrille. Promotions to the higher rank depend on success in the annual competitive examinations, except for danseurs étoiles who are nominated by the Director of the Opera, on a proposal from the Director of the Ballet. Étoiles The maximum number of active danseurs étoiles within the company, originally limited to four, has progressively increased over time and is nowadays set at eighteen. The title is conferred for life and is therefore kept after retirement, which is set at a maximum age of 42, like for all other dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet. Notable former dancers See also History of ballet List of productions of Swan Lake derived from its 1895 revival Rudolf Nureyev References Notes Sources Astier, Régine (1998a). "Académie Royale de Danse" in Cohen 1998, vol. 1. pp. 3–5. Astier, Régine (1998b). "Beauchamps, Pierre" in Cohen 1998, vol. 1., pp. 396–397. Babsky, Monique (1998). "Aumer, Jean-Louis" in Cohen 1998, vol. 1, pp. 201–203. Christout, Marie-Françoise (1998). "Paris Opera Ballet" in Cohen 1998, vol. 5, pp. 86–100. Cohen, Selma Jeanne, editor (1998). International Encyclopedia of Dance (6 volumes). Oxford: