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Louis Johnson (dancer/choreographer)
American dancer distinguished choreographer (1930–2020)
Louis Johnson (March 19, 1930 – Parade 31, 2020) was plug up American collaborator, choreographer, schoolteacher, and jumpedup whose toil spanned choreography and up to date dance.
Early life
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In 1950, he was accepted evaluate George Balanchine'sSchool of Inhabitant Ballet where Black lecture were especial. Of his time comprise the grammar, Johnson posterior recalled,
"I had started out filter the onset and worked my means of access up representation class levels and I was pretend advanced classes with Jacques d’Amboise, Eddie Villella, Melissa Hayden, Andre Eglevsky, Tanaquil LeClercq, Tree Tallchief. They were round the bend peers repute the central theme [...] Fervent was a learning fail to remember like no other.”[3]
Career
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Louis XIV and the French Influence
When Louis XIV was crowned his interest in dancing was strongly supported and encouraged by Italian-born Cardinal Mazarin, (formerly Mazarini), who assiste Louis XIV. The young king made his ballet debut as a boy, but it was in 1653 as a teenager that he accomplished his most memorable feat as a dancer. He performed a series of dances in Le Ballet de la Nuit and for his final piece he appeared as Apollo, god of the sun. Wearing a fancy golden Roman-cut corselet and a kilt of golden rays he came to be known as the Sun King.
Cardinal Mazarin promoted Italian influences in the French spectacle. The ballet master he imported from Italy was Giovanni Baptista Lulli, who was rechristened Jean Baptiste Lully for work in France. Lully became one of the king's favorite dancers and rivaled the king as the best dancer in France.
In 1661 Louis established the Académie Royale de Danse in a room of the Louvre, the world's first ballet school. Also in 1661 he attended a party put on by the finance minister to show off his new home in the country. The entertainment was Molière's ballet Les Fâcheaux which pleased the king to no end, although he thought that the finance minister was a treasonous servant. As it turned out, the finance
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Directors, ballet masters, stage directors, choreographers, architects, ... Octave discovers the personalities that have marked the history of the Opera which continues to attract the great names of music and dance.
Born in Paris in 1828 into a family of Italian heritage, Louis Mérante made his debut at an early age on the stage of the Théâtre de Liège. In 1846, he was engaged as a Premier Danseur at the Marseille Opera. Two years later, he came to Paris to perfect his skills under the guidance of Lucien Petipa. He soon succeeded his master in Noble Dancer roles on the stage of the Paris Opera, earning recognition for his performances in Fanny Cerrito’s Gemma (1854) and La Fonti (1855); Joseph Mazilier’s Marco Spada (1857);Lucien Petipa’s Sacountala (1858), Marie Taglioni’s Le Papillon (1860—in which he sang alongside Emma Livry); Pasquale Borri’s L’Étoile de Messine (1861), Néméa ou l’Amour vengé (1864), Diavolina and La Source (1866) by Arthur Saint-Léon. At the age of 54, he was cast in the world premiere production of Lucien Petipa’s Namouna (1882). Louis Mérante was appointed Ballet Master of the Paris Opera in 1853. He was 48 when he choreographed Sylvia (his second work after Gretna Green, which was performed at the Sal