She started In 1985, at age 9, she left home to train at Paris Opera Ballet School.

She had originated works for choreographers including Jiří Kylián, Wayne McGregor, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Crystal Pite.

[6] Her first work is a piece with Dresden Semperoper Ballett principal Jiri Bubenicek, which was performed in festivals.

She was later commissioned by the Paris Opera Ballet, making her the first in-house female dancer to choreograph for the company.

[7] They both reunited in 2024 for a unique performance of Dauphin's piece The Future of Statues at Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris.

"[4] She was part of the luxury French brand Céline's Spring/Summer 2015 campaign,[9] shot by Juergen Teller : "I thought of it more as a dialogue between three artists."

[10] Before that, she was the image of Repetto and appeared in several fashion editorials - alone or together with other principal dancers of Paris Opera Ballet (shot by Philippe Robert in 2008,[11] by Soan & Seng in 2015[12]).

Paris Opera ballerina Marie-Agnès Gillot wears a black lace dress from McQueen, yet as she dances it becomes the shroud of a dying swan, a goth ballgown, the robes of a flying angel".

[1] As an ambassador of Doctor Jacques Leibowitch's ICCARRE (Intermittent, in Canny short Cycles, Antiretrovirals may Retain Efficiency), she performed, alongside Marianne Faithfull and the sisters, Katia and Marielle Labèque, at the Jean-Paul Gaultier headquarters in 2015.