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Marius Petipa

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Birth Date:
11.03.1818
Death date:
14.07.1910
Extra names:
Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa
Categories:
Actor, Artist, Pedagogue, teacher, Working in the theater
Nationality:
 french
Cemetery:
San Michele

Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa (11 March 1818 — 14 July [O.S. 1 July] 1910) was a French ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer. Petipa is considered to be the most influential ballet master and choreographer of ballet that has ever lived.

Marius Petipa is noted for his long career as Premier Maître de Ballet of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, a position he held from 1871 until 1903. Petipa created over fifty ballets, some of which have survived in versions either faithful to, inspired by, or reconstructed from the original — The Pharaoh's Daughter (1862); Don Quixote (1869); La Bayadère (1877); Le Talisman (1889); The Sleeping Beauty (1890); The Nutcracker (which was most likely choreographed by Lev Ivanov, perhaps with Petipa's counsel and instruction) (1892); Le Réveil de Flore(1894); Le Halte de Cavalerie (1896); Raymonda (1898); Les Saisons (1900), and Les Millions d’Arlequin (a.k.a. Harlequinade) (1900).

Petipa revived a substantial number of works created by other Ballet Masters. Many of these revivals would go on to become the definitive editions from which all subsequent productions would be based. The most famous of these revivals are Le CorsaireGiselleLa Esmeralda,CoppéliaLa Fille Mal Gardée (with Lev Ivanov), The Little Humpbacked Horse and Swan Lake (with Lev Ivanov).

Many dances have survived in an independent form from Petipa's original works and revivals in versions either based on the original or choreographed anew by others — the Grand Pas classiquePas de trois and Mazurka des enfants from PaquitaLa Carnaval de Venise Pas de deux from SatanellaThe Talisman Pas de deux; the La Esmeralda Pas de deux; the Diane and Actéon Pas de deuxLe Halte de Cavalerie Pas de deux; the Don Quixote Pas de deux; the La Fille Mal Gardée Pas de deux; and the Harlequinade Pas de deux.

All of the full-length works and individual pieces which have survived in active performance are considered to be cornerstones of the ballet repertory.

 

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        Relation nameRelation typeBirth DateDeath dateDescription
        1Jean Antoine Nicolas PetipaJean Antoine Nicolas PetipaFather16.02.178728.07.1855
        2Marie  PetipaMarie PetipaDaughter29.10.185716.01.1930
        3Lucien  PetipaLucien PetipaBrother22.12.181507.07.1898
        4Sergei  LegatSergei LegatSon in-law27.09.187501.11.1905
        5Yekaterina  GeltzerYekaterina GeltzerCoworker02.11.187612.12.1962
        6Роман  АполлонскийРоман АполлонскийCoworker01.10.186217.08.1928
        7Mathilde  KschessinskaMathilde KschessinskaCoworker, Employee31.08.187206.12.1971
        8Christian  JohanssonChristian JohanssonCoworker20.05.181712.12.1903
        9Ludwig MinkusLudwig MinkusCoworker23.03.182607.12.1917
        10Yekaterina  VazemYekaterina VazemCoworker25.01.184814.12.1937
        11Michel FokineMichel FokineCoworker05.05.188022.08.1942
        12Lev  IvanovLev IvanovEmployee02.03.183424.12.1901
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