Marius Petipa

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Marius Ivanovich Petipa born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa on 11 March 1818 in Marseille, Kingdom of France died in Gurzuf in the Crimea, Russian Empire, in what is now the Ukraine, on 14 July O.S. 1 July 1910 was a ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer. Marius Petipa is cited nearly unanimously by the most noted artists of the classical ballet to be the most influential balletmaster and choreographer that has ever lived among them George Balanchine, who cited Petipa as his primary influence. Marius Petipa is noted for his long career as Premier Maître de Ballet of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, a position he held from 1871 until 1903. Petipa created over fifty ballets, some of which have survived in versions either faithful to, inspired by, or reconstructed from the original. The Pharaoh's Daughter (1862); Don Quixote (1869); La Bayadère (1877); Le Talisman (1889); The Sleeping Beauty (1890); The Nutcracker (which was mostlikely choreographed by Lev Ivanov, with Petipa's counsel and instruction) (1892); Le réveil de Flore (1894); Le Halte de Cavalerie (1896); Raymonda (1898); Les Saisons (1900), and Les millions d Arlequin a.k.a. Harlequinade (1900).