Marius Petipa

See also: Petipa

Michel-Victor Marius - Alphonse Petipa , born with Marseilles the March 11th 1818 and died in Gurzuf in the Crimea the July 14th 1910, is a Ballet master Danseur, and Chorégraphe French.

Biography

Wire of the Master of Ballet Jean-Antoine Petipa and of the mongrel actress Victorine Grasseau, Marius takes his first steps on the scene of the Théâtre of the Currency at the five years age, in the ballet of Pierre Gardel Psyché and the Love . Leaving Brussels in 1835, it dances with Bordeaux, then choreography its first works with Nantes, in 1838 and 1839. After a triumphal round in North America, Marius Petipa returns to Bordeaux, then he works with Madrid of 1843 to 1846. Taken the following year like first dancer with the imperial ballet of Saint-Pétersbourg, it becomes there ballet master in title in 1869, until its retirement in 1904. He also teaches at the school of dance, which he directs from 1855 to 1887.

Good dancer, he is however better choreographer and sign an about sixty ballets, of which several will make date in the history of the dance. Beside many resumptions of works of the repertory ( the badly kept Girl , the Sylphid , Paquita , Coppélia or Gisele ), it creates ballets which will enter the traditional repertory of the great institutions: Sleeping Beauty (1890), Nut-cracker (1892) or the Lake of the swans (1895) with Tchaïkovski, the Corsair (1858) and Faust (1867) with Cesare Pugni, and especially Don Quichotte (1869) and Bayadère (1877) with Leon Minkus. Developing the art of the romantic intrigue, it conceives ballets into three or four acts, which occupy one evening whole and are not only any more of the entertainments between two plays. It alternates the Pantomime and the great ballet around a many distribution, where the corps de ballet and the observers emphasize brilliant soloists. It fixes the course of the “steps of two” (proverb, variations male and female, coded) and, if it pays more attention to PRIMA ballerina , it obliges the two partners with a work unites very precise and impresses virtuosity.

Being inspired sometimes by old the ballets of action, sometimes of scenes in traditional matter (Italian, Spanish, Polish, Russian, etc), it will have known to give to the romantic Ballet all its width and its strength, so much so that its work constitutes still today the base of the repertory of the large traditional companies and that many variations extracted from its ballets are always with the program of big competitions of dance.

Works

Nantes

  • 1838 : Right of the lord
  • 1838: the Small Gipsy
  • 1838: the Wedding in Nantes

Bordeaux

  • 1840 : Pretty Of Bordeaux the
  • 1841: the Intrigue in love
  • 1842: the Vintage
  • 1844: the Language of the flowers

Madrid

  • 1845 : Carmen and her bullfighter
  • 1845: the Pearl of Seville
  • 1845: the Adventure of a girl of Madrid
  • 1845: Departure for the race of the bulls
  • 1846: the Fleur of Grenade
  • 1846: Forfasella ó hija LED infierno
  • 1847: Alba-Flor the pesarosa

Saint-Pétersbourg

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