Jules Perrot

Jules-Joseph Perrot is a Ballet master Danse ur and French born with Lyon the August 18th 1810 and died with Paramé the August 24th 1892.

Resulting from a working medium, it begins child in his birthplace before being committed with Paris with the Théâtre of Gaîté. It continues its formation with Auguste Vestris and dances since 1827 have Théâtre of the Door Saint Martin's day.

After a short stay with London, it is engaged in 1830 with the Opéra of Paris but, in permanent competition with Joseph Mazilier, it leaves the troop later five years and goes to Naples where it discovers Carlotta Grisi: it will become its pupil, his partner and his partner until their separation in 1842. It is for it that it assembles Gisele in 1841.

Often in conflict with the administration of the Opera of Paris, he prefers to continue his career abroad: with London (1842-1848) where it is Ballet master to the Her Majesty' S Theater, with the Scala of Milan (1847-1848) and with Saint-Pétersbourg (1848-1859) where he is ballet master of the imperial Theaters.

Of return in France in 1861, it gives courses to the Opera of Paris, as Edgar Degas in the Class testifies to it to dance (1874).

Jules Perrot is regarded as a brilliance interprets and an inventive choreographer, an at the same time lifting and elegant dancer. Partner of Marie Taglioni, it knows its first triumph in 1831 in Flore and Zéphire of Didelot. Théophile Gautier qualifies it “ Perrot the air one, Perrot the Sylph, male Taglioni ”. Interpret its own ballets, it is partner of the largest dancers of his time: Carlotta Grisi, Fanny Elssler, Fanny Cerrito, Lucile Grahn, Arthur Saint-Leon or Marius Petipa.

Works

1836 : Tarantella (London)
1836: the Nymph and the Butterfly (Vienna)
1836: the Appointment (Vienna)
1838: the Neapolitan Fisherman (Vienna)
1838: the Imp (Vienna)
1838: the Appointment , new version (Naples)
1841: Gisele (Paris)
1842: the Neapolitan Fisherman , new version (London)
1842: One evening of the carnival (London)
1843: the Dawn (London)
1843: Ondine or the Naïade (London)
1843: Is delirious It of a painter (London)
1844: Esmeralda (London)
1844: Hammer (London)
1844: Zélia or the Nymph of Diane (London)
1844: the Country-woman great lady (London)
1845: Éoline or Dryade (London)
1845: Kaya or the Love traveller (London)
1845: Bacchante (London)
1845: Not of four (London)
1846: Catarina or the Girl of the gangster (London)
1846: Not of three (London)
1846: Lalla Rookh or the Rose de Lahore (London)
1846: the Judgment of Pâris London)
1847: Odette or the Insanity of Charles VI (Milan)
1847: Not of two (London)
1847: the Elements (London)
1848: Faust (Milan)
1848: the Four Seasons (London)
1849: the Goddaughter of the fairies (Paris)
1851: the Naïade and the Fisherman (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1852: the War of the women (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1853: Gazelda or the Gypsies (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1854: Faust , new version (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1854: Marco Bent (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1855: Armida (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1857: the Beginner (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1857: the Small Commercial one of bouquets (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1857: the Rose, the Violet and the Butterfly , according to Petipa (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1858: the Corsair , according to Mazilier (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1858: Éoline or Dryade , new version (Saint-Pétersbourg)
1864: Gazelda , new version (Milan)

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