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    Jean-Georges Noverre (29 April 1727  – 19 October 1810) was a French dancer and ballet master, and is generally considered the creator of ballet d'action...
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  • every year on 29 April, which is the anniversary of the birth of Jean-Georges Noverre (1727–1810), who is considered to be the "father" or creator of modern...
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  • handling the apparatus. Rhythmic gymnastics grew out of the ideas of Jean-Georges Noverre (1727–1810), François Delsarte (1811–1871), and Rudolf Bode (1881–1970)...
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    hairstyles reminiscent of Madame de Pompadour. She was also instructed by Jean-Georges Noverre, who taught her to walk in the gliding fashion characteristic of...
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    Les Fêtes Chinoises (category Ballets by Jean-Georges Noverre)
    18th-century ballet by Jean-Georges Noverre (1727–1810). The exact date of the ballet's composition is unknown. Before Noverre there was no dance technique...
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    century being Jean-Georges Noverre, with others following and developing techniques for specific types of dance, including Gasparo Angiolini, Jean Dauberval...
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  • the art of the ballet d'action. Although the French choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre is often credited with the original ideas and definitions of what...
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  • Les petits riens (category Ballets by Jean-Georges Noverre)
    "The Little Nothings") is a ballet in one act and three tableaux by Jean-Georges Noverre, with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and other unknown composers...
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  • and actors. He was a student of Louis Dupré, Gaetan Vestris and Jean-Georges Noverre. He married the ballet dancer Elisabeth Bayard, also known as Mademoiselle...
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    dancer and choreographer trained under the French choreographer, Jean Georges Noverre, and the nephew of Julie Alix de la Fay, née Bournonville, of the...
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  • often wore masks. The practice was abandoned after balletmaster Jean-Georges Noverre and choreographer Maximilien Gardel dispensed with them, seeing how...
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    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...
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    Stockholm 1786. He then studied in Paris with Jean Dauberval. He followed his study with Jean-Georges Noverre, under whose lead he debuted in London in 1788...
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    progressed over time, mostly due to the French dancer and ballet-master Jean-Georges Noverre (1727–1810) whose proposals to modernize ballet are contained in...
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    with the opera. Central to this advance was the seminal work of Jean-Georges Noverre, Lettres sur la danse et les ballets (1760), which focused on developing...
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    period. He composed the work for Victoire Jenamy, the daughter of Jean-Georges Noverre and a proficient pianist. Mozart performed the concerto at a private...
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    Académie was nearing the end of its life. On joining the Académie, Jean-Georges Noverre, one of ballet d’action’s most influential choreographers, commented...
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    Claude-François Ménestrier (1631–1705), John Weaver (1673–1760), Jean-Georges Noverre (1727–1810) and Gasparo Angiolini (1731–1803), earned it respectability...
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  • creation of Jean Dauberval, one of the greatest choreographers of his day. He was trained under the influential teacher Jean-Georges Noverre and is further...
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    Deshayes (1705–1779). Later he was in Stuttgart (1760–1764) a pupil of Jean-Georges Noverre (1727–1810), one of the creators of modern ballet (ballet d'action)...
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    helped to create ballet d'action (a form continued by her student, Jean-Georges Noverre); she reformed traditional "feminine" costumes. Born to fairground...
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    choreographer Jean Georges Noverre called for dance reforms in 1760 with his Letters on Dancing and Ballets that costumes became more conducive. Noverre urged...
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    at Stuttgart, Jean-Georges Noverre. Noverre's Lettres sur la danse (1760) called for dramatic effect over acrobatic ostentation; Noverre was himself influenced...
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    Don Quixote (ballet) (category Ballets by George Balanchine)
    ballet in 1740 by Franz Hilverding in Vienna, Austria. In 1768, Jean Georges Noverre mounted a new version of Don Quixote in Vienna to the music of Josef...
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    he was a master and composer of ballets, retiring, in favour of Jean Georges Noverre, with a pension. Vestris married his former rival, dancer Anna Heinel...
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  • Burgtheater his ballet in five acts Adèle de Ponthieu, choreography by Jean-Georges Noverre. "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de. Retrieved...
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  • 1982: Psyché, music by Jean-Joseph Rodolphe played on period instruments; a recreation of choreography by Jean-Georges Noverre for Psyché et l'Amour (1762);...
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    collaboration with the choreographer Gasparo Angiolini; the more radical Jean-Georges Noverre was involved for the first time? The climax of Gluck's opéra comique...
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  • Stephenson, composer of West Gallery music (born 1723) November 19 – Jean-Georges Noverre, ballet master (born 1727) November 27 – Francesco Bianchi, opera...
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  • – Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728) 1810 – Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1727) 1822 – Johann Georg Tralles...
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