Marie Petipa
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Мария Мариусовна Петипа) (29 October 1857, Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
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- 1930, Paris) was a noted Russian ballerina. She was the daughter of Marius Petipa
Marius Petipa
Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa 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....
(under whom she studied) and Maria Petipa. Her debut was at the Mariinsky Theatre
Mariinsky Theatre
The Mariinsky Theatre is a historic theatre of opera and ballet in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theatre of late 19th century Russia, where many of the stage masterpieces of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov received their premieres. The...
in 1875 in Le Dahlia bleu and danced until 1911, mainly in the character dance
Character dance
Character Dance is a specific subdivision of Classical Dance. It is the stylised representation of a traditional folk or national dance,mostly from a European country, and uses movements and music which have been adapted for the theatre....
repertoire. She married the dancer Serge Legat
Serge Legat
Sergei Gustavovich Legat was a Russian ballet dancer. The younger brother of Nikolai Legat, he studied at the imperial ballet school with Pavel Gerdt and his brother....
(1875-1905).