Guillaume Diop

Guillaume Diop (born 2000 At age twelve, he entered the Paris Opera Ballet School, where he trained for six years and graduated first in his class.

When he was 16, Diop attended a summer intensive at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York.

Career In 2018, Diop joined the Paris Opera Ballet. The company responded with a report on diversity at the opera house, which was published in February 2021. , the general director of Paris Opera, announced actions to tackle racist caricatures in classic ballet.

In 2021, he made his debut as Romeo in Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet, as a replacement for an injured , and opposite Léonore Baulac's Juliet. At the time, he held the lowest rank of quadrille, and became the first quadrille to dance a lead role in a major full-length work since Mathilde Froustey in 2003. He also danced the Wedding pas de deux from The Sleeping Beauty, for the company's Young Dancer programme. He took on more lead roles including Basilio in Don Quixote, Solor in La Bayadère and Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, filling in for more senior dancers who were indisposed. He also appeared in Gerard & Kelly's video Panorama. Diop was promoted to sujet, third of the five ranks, in 2023.

In 2024, Diop performed in the Olympic Opening ceremony in Paris, where he danced a solo on the rooftop of the Hôtel de Ville.

In 2022, Diop was listed among "30 under 30" by the French edition of Vanity Fair. In 2023, he was one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch".