He lives in New York where he is a professional dancer. Rayan Lecurieux-Durival, trained in French Guiana, had no intention of exercising another profession. Settled in the USA since 2018, he fully lives his passion and builds a career.
Rayan Lecurieux-Dorival
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His taste for dance is revealed at the age of 6, Rayan tries to reproduce what he sees in dance movies on TV. His mother enrolled him in the EPCC dance school and later he joined Adaclam.
An artistic activity that has turned into a devouring passion. From the 1st class at Félix Eboué high school, Rayan warned his parents:
“I won’t be an engineer for sure, if I have the baccalaureate I want to go to a dance school…”
He obtains parental consent and the following year with his literary bac in his pocket, he leaves for Paris to pursue a course at Rick Odums School where he obtained a Jazz technical aptitude certificate.
The logical continuation is in the United States in order to continue to train and build a professional project. In 2018, he joined the famous Ailey Scholl and stays there until 2021.
With the pandemic, the end of the course was difficult, he finally lived his confinement in Guyana with his family.
Rayan Lecurieux-Dorival Guyanese professional dancer in New York
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Since the end of 2021, Rayan Lecurieux-Durival has returned to New York. He joined, part-time, la compagnie Pony Box Dance Theater and Jennifer Muller. It must provide hard work, seven days a week of rehearsals and training, the dance does not suffer from approximation:
“Dancing is a difficult job that requires a lot of physical and mental effort, but you always have to be on top and present. I want to make a career, I do auditions, at the same time I build myself up, I refine my tastes…”
An iron discipline that imposes a very strict lifestyle on him. Also “freelance dancer”he works on other projects, films, one-off performances over short periods.
The young man quickly adapted to his New York life. He learned English in 6 months because he had to get into the circuit quickly. He was helped by other Guyanese, dancers Yannick Lebrun and Olivier Meduse and Alizée Utteryn: “They guided me when I started here in New York where they are well integrated”.
With the covid pandemic stabilized, cultural life has resumed in the Big Apple. Rayan does not stop. Today, he no longer depends on his parents, he assumes himself entirely: “I live with a roommate because housing in New York is extremely expensive. But there are good sides to living with other people. We create a small family with whom we exchange after work. »
The schedule of the young Guyanese leaves him little respite. In the whirlwind of his New York life, he has no time to look back, he must move forward: “What I appreciate here is the great open-mindedness of the Americans, I find them very “helpful”. Their way of being suits me perfectly. »
Rayan Lecurieux-Durival professional dancer in New York, during a trip to Chicago
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Rayan Lecurieux-Durival does not plan to devolve anywhere other than in the dance world. At the end of his career, he would like to open a school and train students, him, who considers that dance is not yet appreciated at its fair level in Guyana.
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