Aleksandra Fontaine
Aleksandra Fontaine (born Aleksandra Kędzierska on April 13, 1984) is a Polish-French dancer and actress.[1][2][3] She is also a novelist.[4]
Life and career
[edit]Early life
[edit]Fontaine grew up in Gdynia, Poland.[5] She started dancing at the age of nine at the National Ballet School in Gdańsk. At sixteen, she left her parents and Poland to study neo-classical dance, choreography, and theater at the Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama and Dance in Austria.[1]
Dancing
[edit]Fontaine's first professional dance engagement was with the It Dansa company in Barcelona, Spain, in 2003.[2] The same year, she became a Bluebell Girls dancer,[6] joining the Lido cabaret in Paris,[7] She appeared several times in Patrick Sébastien's show Le Plus Grand Cabaret du monde on France 2.[1]
Fontaine appeared in documentaries in Poland (We are from Poland on TVP Polonia) and France (Sept à huit on TF1) on 18 March 2012,[8]
Choreographer and producer
[edit]In 2015, Fontaine founded a production company, Fontaine Media, to produce her own shows, with the first one, the revue Le Rêve (Dream), presented in July 2015 in Kraków, Poland, at the Variété Theatre.[9] In 2016, she presented the Theatre-Revue Show first in Singapore and then in Gdańsk.[10]
Actress and body double
[edit]In 2010, she played the role of Indra in the film White as Snow by Christophe Blanc.[citation needed] She appeared in the short film Job Interview by Pauline Caballero in 2016. She next played a teacher in L'Atelier de l'ange (Angel's Workshop) by Pierre Laffargue. In 2017, she appeared in the film HHhH by Cédric Jimenez.[citation needed]
Fontaine served as body double for actresses such as Margaret Qualley, in The Substance, or Sandrine Kiberlain.[11]
On 17 March 2018, she directed and played the role of Lidia in the adaptation of her novel La Fille à la valise (The Girl with the Suitcase)[12] at the Municipal Theatre of Perpignan, France.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Variete, Krakowski Teatr. "Krakowski Teatr Variete – Nocne Variete: Le Rêve (Marzenie)". teatrvariete.pl. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
- ^ a b "From the Paris Lido to the Variete in Krakow". Retrieved 2024-07-04.
- ^ "Swarovski and ostrich feathers straight from Paris". Retrieved 2024-07-04.
- ^ "Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans - Aleksandra Kedzierska signe son 3e roman : "Tombe l'ombre"". lindependant.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-12-24.
- ^ Goutorbe, Christian (2021-08-02). "Dans les Pyrénées-Orientales, l'ébouriffante galerie d'art d'une ancienne danseuse du Lido". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-12-24.
- ^ "Des artistes en villégiature chez Aleksandra". lindependant.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-12-24.
- ^ Fontaine Media (2016-03-21). "Aleksandra Kedzierska Fontaine & Krzysztof Skiba". Retrieved 2024-07-04.
- ^ "Famous artist on the dramatic situation in France! It's never been this bad / Viva.pl". Viva.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-07-04..
- ^ "Aleksandra Kędzierska Fontaine: ciągle jestem głodna nowych wrażeń". Kultura Onet (in Polish). 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
- ^ "The great success of the III edition of the Pomorskie Rendez-Vous - Sunreef Yachts". Sunreef Yachts. Retrieved 2024-07-04..
- ^ "Aleksandra Fontaine:du Lido à doublure corps de Margaret Qualley dans "The Substance"". lepetitjournal.com (in French). Retrieved 2024-12-24.
- ^ "Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans - Aleksandra Kedzierska signe son 3e roman : "Tombe l'ombre"". lindependant.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-12-24.
- ^ https://www.mairie-perpignan.fr/sites/mairie-perpignan.fr/files/editeur/002_flyer_akf_170318_w.pdf