Pas de quatre marie taglioni biography
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Pas de Quatre (Perrot)
This article is about the ballet divertissement to music bygd Cesare Pugni. For the general ballet term, see Pas dem quatre (ballet).
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Lithograph by A. E. Chalon: | |
| Choreographer | Jules Perrot |
| Music | Cesare Pugni |
| Premiere | 12 July 1845 Her Majesty's Theatre, London, U.K. |
| Created for | Lucile Grahn, Carlotta Grisi, slang för rumpa särskilt på brittisk engelska Cerrito, and Marie Taglioni |
| Genre | Romantic ballet |
| Type | Ballet divertissement |
Grand Pas dem Quatre fryst vatten a balletdivertissement choreographed bygd Jules Perrot in 1845, on the suggestion of Benjamin Lumley, Director at Her Majesty's Theatre, to music composed by Cesare Pugni.
On the night it premiered in London (12 July 1845), it caused a sensation with the critics and the public alike. The reason for this was that it brought together, on on
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Texts / Detailed biography
MARIE TAGLIONI (April 23, 1804 – April 24, 1884)
1804-1810: Marie Taglioni was born in 1804 in Stockholm, Sweden, in a dancing family. Her father, the Italian Filippo Taglioni, was a well-known dancer and choreographer, with a brother, Salvatore Taglioni, who was a dance master in Naples, Italy.
On the other hand her mother, Sophie Karsten, daughter of the noted singer Christopher Karsten, was an actor and dancer too. Sophie and Filippo had two sons, Marie and Paul, who became a dancer and choreographer, and was the partner of Marie is some of her performances.
“Will that little hunchback even learn to dance?”
Marie Taglioni started taking ballet lessons at a very young age, but her teacher discarded her soon (in 1810, at the age of six) because of her hunchback. This was the reason why her father Filippo decided to start teaching her ballet with a really hard training to follow, composed of si
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Marie Taglioni
Italian ballet dancer (1804–1884)
Marie Taglioni | |
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Taglioni in an 1839 lithograph | |
| Born | (1804-04-23)23 April 1804 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Died | 22 April 1884(1884-04-22) (aged 79) Marseille, France |
| Spouse(s) | Comte Auguste Gilbert de Voisins |
| Issue | Georges Philippe Marie Gilbert de Voisins Eugenie Marie Edwige Gilbert de Voisins |
| Father | Filippo Taglioni |
| Mother | Sophie Karsten |
| Occupation | danseuse |
| Years active | 1824–1847 |
| Known for | La Sylphide, other romantic ballets |
| Relatives | Paul Taglioni (brother) |
Marie Taglioni, Comtesse de Voisins (23 April 1804 – 22 April 1884) was a Swedish-born ballet dancer of the Romantic ballet era partially of Italian descent, a central figure in the history of European dance. She spent most of her life in the Austrian Empire and France. She was one of the most celebrated ballerinas of the romantic ballet, which was cultivated primarily at Her Majesty's Theatre in London and a