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unusual facts about French ballet


French ballet

Beauchamps is also credited with coming up with the five fundamental foot positions from which all balletic movements move through.



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Boris Kochno

His later career included a position as Monte Carlo ballet director, where he became an influential figure in post World War II French ballet.

Élisabeth Soligny

She was a premier dancer at the French Ballet of the Du Londel Troupe in Sweden and of the Royal Swedish Ballet.

Jean-Baptiste Brulo

Jean-Baptiste Brulo (29 January 1746, Ghent – ?) was a French ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet master, the son of the French dancers Jean-Baptiste Brulo and Marie-Thérèse Tabary.

Michel François Hoguet

Michel François Hoguet (b. 17 June 1793 in Paris – d. 5 April 1871 in Berlin) was a French ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer at the Royal Berlin Theater, where he worked from 1817 until 1823 as first solo dancer.

Van Goethem

Marie van Goethem (1865–?), French ballet dancer and artist's model