Charles-Louis Didelot

Charles-Louis Didelot is a Ballet master Danse ur and French born with Stockholm the March 27th 1767 and died with Kiev the November 7th 1837.

Wire of the Internal caliper gauge of the king de Suède, he studies the dance with his Charles father, then with Paris with Dauberval and Lany. Recalled to Stockholm in 1786, it assembles its first choreographies there. To Paris the following year, it follows courses with Gaëtan and Angiolo Vestris, then will perfect its formation with London with Noverre, under the direction of which it begins in 1788.

In spite of promising Beginnings with the Opera of Paris, it is not committed and continues its itinerant life with Bordeaux, where it finds Jean Dauberval, then in London where it gains as a celebrity.

It arrives at Saint-Pétersbourg in 1801, at the invitation of Charles Picq and of the director of the imperial Theaters, where it begins like First dancer. Leaving Saint-Pétersbourg for London in 1811, it gives several ballets, like to Paris, and turns over to it in Russia in 1816, where it will remain until the end of his life.

Heir to the tradition of the Ballet of action, it goes up in Russia the badly kept Girl of Dauberval, and its ballet Flore and Zéphire (Paris, 1815) is worth an international repute to him. It binds to the Russian intellectual life around Pouchkine and precedes, by the subjects of its ballets, the advent of the Romantisme.

Pedagog and irascible but effective ballet master, Didelot will be devoted then mainly to the teaching of the dance, forming the best elements of the ballet. It is Antoine Titus which will succeed to him like Ballet master.

Principal ballets

1786 : Not of two (Stockholm)
1788: Richard Heart-of-Lion (London)
1789: the Loading for Cythère (London)
1796: Love avenged (London)
1797: Acis and Galatée (London)
1802: Apollo and Daphné (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1807: Médée and Jason (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1808: Don Quichotte (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1809: Psyché and the Love (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1812: the Queen of Golconde (London)
1813: One evening of summer (London)
1814: the Bazaar of Algiers (London)
1815: Flora and Zéphire (Paris)
1817: Apollo and the Muses (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1818: the Caliph de Badgad (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1821: Alceste (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1821: the Return of the Indies (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1823: the Prisoner of the Caucasus (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1824: Cinderella , according to Louis Duport (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1825: Phèdre and Hippolyte (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1827: the village Festival (Saint-Pétersbourg)

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