[HIGHLIGHTS] Pierre Lacotte, dancer and great ballet choreographer, died at the age of 91

French choreographer Pierre Lacotte, died on Monday, April 10 at the age of 91. He was known for his reconstructions of nineteenth-century ballets for the world's largest companies.

The choreographer died in a clinic in La Seyne-sur-Mer, Var, of sepsis after the infection of a wound. His last creation dates back to October 2021, with the ballet adaptation of Stendhal's novel, "Le Rouge et le Noir" for the Paris Opera.