See also: Saint-Leon

Arthur Saint-Leon (of his true name Arthur Michel ) is a Danse ur and choreographer French born with Paris the September 17th 1821 and died in the same city the September 2nd 1870.

After studies of Music and dance with Stuttgart, it comes to improve with Paris under the direction of the ballet master Albert and begins his career with the Théâtre of the Currency, with Brussels, where it is engaged like First dancer in 1838. It occurs then on the largest European scenes, of Milan to Vienna and of London to Paris. Interpret Ballet S of Jules Perrot with his partner then wife Fanny Cerrito, it creates Vivandière , with the Opéra of Paris in 1844. In front of the success of its first work, creations are connected, of the Violon of the devil (1849) to its masterpiece Coppélia (1870).

Saint-Leon is also the author of a system of notation of the dance published in 1852 in Paris, under the title the Shorthand, or art to note the dance promptly.

Principal ballets

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