Jean Dauberval
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Jean Dauberval or Jean D'Auberval was a French dancer and ballet master. He is most noted for creating the ballet, La fille mal gardée, one of the most enduring and popular works of the ballet reperto
Lithograph, c. 1790
Jean-Georges Noverre
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Jean-Georges Noverre was a French dancer and ballet master, and is generally considered the creator of ballet d'action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century. His birthday is now ob
Jean Dauberval
…the most enduring and popular works of the ballet repertoire. Dauberval was trained at the school of the Paris Opéra where he studied under the great Jean-Georges Noverre. He was appointed premier danseur of the ballet of the Académie Royale de Musique in 1763, and, in 1771, he was named ballet master. From 1781 until…
Perronneau, 1764, Louvre
Pas-de-trois in Ludwigsburg porcelain, c. 1763, one of a series of groups probably directly taken from Noverre's ballets
Les Lettres sur la danse et sur les ballets, Lyon 1760
Another Ludwigsburg porcelain group, 1760-63