Guest of A Sunday in the Country, dancer François Alu returned to the painful years of harassment that led him to develop eating disorders.
Ex-star dancer of the Paris Opera, Francois Alu is now known to the general public since he was a member of the jury of Dance with the stars, which he entered in 2021. He is also, since the same time, the author of his first solo show, a form of therapy in which humor, dance and theater are mixed and which allows him, thanks to different characters that he endorses, to confide in his career as a dancer and in “all her little voices” he has in his head. Little voices that have not always wished him well. This January 29, when he was a guest of the new issue ofA Sunday in the countryside by Frédéric Lopez, he spent a day out of time with Chimène Badi, who recently stood out by announcing that she had broken up with her companion, and with the actor Michel Boujenah.
“I was told: ‘must be refined’.”
During the show, the dancer spoke about his complicated childhood, confiding in particular, like Chimène Badi, on the harassment he suffered from a very young agebecause of his physique and the difficulty it was when he was at the dance school of the Opéra national de Paris: “It started when I started school, so from my 10 to 15/16 years old what. I was told ‘must refine’. It was the thing that came back all the time. I was already said ‘you saw yourself with your ass, with your thighs…’ Finally, the students too, who come to sting… Every year we can get fired dance school, so every year I come by and I say to myself ‘it’s cool, we’re a team’. I’m super naive but there’s a moment when I say to myself ‘I’m going to close the bulletproof vest because in fact it’s super hard. They hit me.”
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Of the “elk of bulimia” still today
François Alu then took the time to explain the lasting evil What could these remarks about his physique, written on his report card, have had to do with: “It creates eating disorders. There are times, even today… It’s better because I’ve been seeing a shrink for seven years so it’s calming down but there are still times today when I have bursts of bulimia and I’m going to throw myself on food. I think back to a period that was a bit darker when I was watching movies and I had my packet of candy, my pizza, my cakes, my soda… And I was there ‘I’m fine under my duvet eating’ and I was actually just destroying myself.” And the artist is sure of it: what gave him the courage to continue, when he called his mother in tears, was his love for dance.
