Pierre Beauchamp

See also: Beauchamp

Called wrongly Charles or Charles-Louis, Pierre Beauchamp was born with Paris the October 30th 1631 and died in this same city in February 1705.

Connected with a family of internal caliper gauge, Beauchamp begins at the court from Louis XIV in 1648, in the Ballet of the disordered state of passions . He collaborates then with Jean-Baptiste Lully and Molière and invents with them the “Comedy-ballet” whose best illustration is the Middle-class man gentleman (1670). He regulates also the dances of the principal operas of Robert Cambert and Pierre Perrin for the royal Académie of Music, of which he is the Ballet master first .

With died of Lully (1687), he works primarily for the colleges of the Jésuites. It trains many dancers like Blondy, Favier and Pécour, and develops a written form of the dance which its disciple Feuillet will publish under his proper name in 1700. Codifier of the five traditional positions, Beauchamp is one of the greatest figures of the “Belle French dance” of the 17th century.

External bond

  • Its ballets and their representations on site CÉSAR

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