Mathieu Ganio (born 16 March 1984) is a French danseur étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet.
[1] He made his stage debut at two years of age, performing alonside his mother in Roland Petit's Ma Pavlova.
[2] He began dance lessons at the age of seven with Colette Armand, mother of dancer Patrick Armand,[2] and studied at the École Nationale Supérieure de Danse de Marseille from 1992 to 1999, before completing his training at the Paris Opera Ballet School.
[6] Ganio's repertoire includes principal roles in Romantic, Classical and dramatic ballets, a broad repertoire of neo-classical works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, ballets by Serge Lifar, Roland Petit, Maurice Béjart, Pierre Lacotte and Angelin Preljocaj, as well as multiple works by John Neumeier, William Forsythe and Wayne McGregor.
[10] In November 2017 he participated in the Men in Motion project, organized by Ivan Putrov, at the London Coliseum.