The badly kept Girl

Created on July 1st 1789 with Bordeaux under the title of Ballet of the straw, or There is only one step of the evil to the good , the badly kept Girl is a Ballet-pantomime in 2 acts and 3 tables of Jean Bercher, known as Dauberval. The principal interpreters are M {{lle}} Theodore (wife of Dauberval) and Eugene Hus.

In the beginning, the musical partition consisted of pot-rotted of French airs to the mode. It is Ferdinand Herold which composed of it the final music for the version of Jean-Pierre Aumer in 1828. This ballet many times was taken again, adapt and revisit until the 20th century.

After the representation in Bordeaux followed, the April 30th 1791, a representation with the the Pantheon Theater of London, under its current name; the interpreters are Miss Theodore and Charles-Louis Didelot.

In the ten years which followed, the ballet was represented everywhere in Europe, except with Paris, where it is only in 1803 that the part was put in scene at the Porte Saint Martin's day by Eugene Hus.

In 1828, the Opéra of Paris takes again to the badly kept Girl with her repertory, with for ballet master Jean-Pierre Aumer, a disciple of Dauberval, and Mrs Montessu in the role titrates. In 1854, the ballet is withdrawn from the Parisian repertory and fall into the lapse of memory with regard to France. However, it is maintained with the repertory of the School of dance of the Opera of Paris which dances it regularly.

On the other hand, the ballet continues to inspire the ballet masters abroad: Filippo Taglioni assembles a new version from there to Berlin in 1864, Marius Petipa with Saint-Pétersbourg in 1885 (under the title the useless Precaution ), Bronislava Nijinska with New York in 1940.

In 1989, Ivo Cramer gave to Nantes a complete reconstitution of the ballet of origin, while being based on an annotated musical partition of the hand of Dauberval.

Argument

Read, heroin, loves Colin, which opposes his/her mother, the Simone widow, who would like to marry it with the son of a vine grower cossu, Nicaise. Mischievous and tough, it ends up triumphing after thousand tricks and turnings. Hake removes it while the storm thunders and that Nicaise flies away carried by its sunshade.

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