Marie-Agnès Gillot Leaps Into Jacob Sutton Images for Numéro France May 2016

Marie-Agnès Gillot is a French ballet dancer and choreographer with the Paris Opera Ballet, styled here in fluid silhouettes by Samuel Francois. Jacob Sutton captures the Martha Graham feeling, powerful poses as 'Take Flight' for Numéro France May 2016. Gillot's dramatic success is an exercise in self-actualization, due to her childhood challenge of double scholiosis. In spite of being 'imprisoned' for years in a cumbersome back braceto straighten her spine, a fiercely-determined Marie-Agnès kept dancing./ Hair by Neil Moodie; makeup by Hiromi Ueda