In “Danser” (“to dance”), Marchand (with the help of a journalist, Caroline de Bodinat) describes, often with poetic intensity, the grueling, competitive world of the Paris Opera Ballet school and company, and lets the reader into its claustrophobic confines. “I had a lot of doubts, but the editor told me she wanted to hear the voice of a young person talking about following their passion, and what the costs were of that,” he said in a video interview from his apartment in Paris.Īs it turns out, he had plenty to talk about. Why, then, a book now? Marchand asked the same question when an editor approached him three years ago. And from the outside, his life looks like a untroubled series of achievements, validated by critics and audiences, who love his lyricism, virtuosity, acting abilities and leading-man looks. Although he has made a quick climb to the top - by 23 he was an étoile, the company’s highest rank - he still has a whole career still ahead of him. Marchand, at 27, seems a little young to have written an autobiography. Hugo Marchand, probably the starriest of the Paris Opera Ballet’s stars, or étoiles, stares out, bare-chested and muscled, from the cover of his new memoir, “Danser” (Arthaud), published in France last month.
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