Ballet dancer Hannah O'Neill has been offered a contract with the prestigious Paris Opera Ballet. Photo: Joe Armao

THE Paris Opera Ballet has swooped on Australia's brightest talent, Hannah O'Neill.

The company has offered her a rare and much sought-after contract beginning in August and extending until April 2012.

O'Neill came to international attention in 2009 when she won the world's most distinguished competition for young dancers, Switzerland's Prix de Lausanne.

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