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In modern times, ballet masters are generally charged with teaching the daily company ballet class and rehearsing the <a href="/wiki/Dancers" class="mw-redirect" title="Dancers">dancers</a> for both new and established <a href="/wiki/Ballets" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballets">ballets</a> in the company's repertoire.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The artistic director of a ballet company, whether a male or female, may also be called its ballet master. Historic use of <a href="/wiki/Gender_marking_in_job_titles" title="Gender marking in job titles">gender marking in job titles</a> in ballet (and live theatre) is being supplanted by <a href="/wiki/Gender-neutral_language" title="Gender-neutral language">gender-neutral language</a> job titles regardless of an employee's gender (e.g. <i>ballet master</i> in lieu of <i>ballet mistress</i>, <i>wig master</i> as an alternative to <i>wig mistress</i>). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_of_the_position">History of the position</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballet_master&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History of the position"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Especially during the early centuries of ballet troupes and ballet companies from the 18th century until the early 20th century, the position of <i>first</i> ballet master, referred to traditionally as the <i>premier maître de ballet en chef</i> or more simply as the <i>maître de ballet</i>, was the undisputed head of the company who acted as chief choreographer and <a href="/wiki/Artistic_director" title="Artistic director">artistic director</a>. His duties included creating ballets, dances in operas, commissioning music, and presiding over the teaching of the dancers and style desired. It was this head ballet master who had the responsibility of the artistic directorship of a particular group of dancers or of a theatre. Since the early 20th century, primarily after the disbandment of the original <a href="/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes">Ballets Russes</a>, the title has been used more to describe the master teachers/assistant directors of a ballet company, (previously known as <i>second</i> ballet master), with the head of a company being referred to as the artistic director. </p><p>In recent years, companies have quietly begun to change the title's name given its hierarchical and dominating connotations.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They have switched the name of the position to various titles such as Principal Teacher,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Artistic Manager,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and other such titles to avoid the politically charged word "master." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Famous_ballet_masters">Famous ballet masters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballet_master&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Famous ballet masters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Beauchamp" title="Pierre Beauchamp">Pierre Beauchamp</a></b> (1631–1705), first ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Ballet_du_Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_de_l%27Acad%C3%A9mie_Royale_de_Musique" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique">Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique</a> in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> from 1673 to 1687, he invented the <i><a href="/wiki/Com%C3%A9die-ballet" title="Comédie-ballet">comédie-ballet</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Moli%C3%A8re" title="Molière">Molière</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Lully" title="Jean-Baptiste Lully">Jean-Baptiste Lully</a>, codified the <a href="/wiki/Five_positions_of_the_feet" class="mw-redirect" title="Five positions of the feet">five positions of the feet</a> and created a system of dance notation.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Land%C3%A9" title="Jean-Baptiste Landé">Jean-Baptiste Landé</a></b> (died 1748), ballet master in Russia from 1733 to 1747; he is known as the parent of the Russian <a href="/wiki/Mariinsky_Ballet" title="Mariinsky Ballet">Mariinsky Ballet</a>.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Jean-Georges_Noverre" title="Jean-Georges Noverre">Jean-Georges Noverre</a></b> (1727–1810), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Stuttgart_Ballet" title="Stuttgart Ballet">Stuttgart Ballet</a> from 1760 to 1767, of the <a href="/wiki/Vienna_State_Opera" title="Vienna State Opera">Wiener Hofoper</a> in <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a> from 1768 to 1775 and of the <a href="/wiki/Ballet_du_Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_de_l%27Acad%C3%A9mie_Royale_de_Musique" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique">Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique</a> from 1776 to 1781. Between 1758 and 1760 he published his <i>Lettres sur la danse et les ballets</i>. He is generally considered the creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Ballet_d%27action" title="Ballet d'action">ballet d'action</a></i>, a precursor of the <a href="/wiki/Narrative_ballet" title="Narrative ballet">narrative ballet</a> of the 19th century.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Louis_Gallodier" title="Louis Gallodier">Louis Gallodier</a></b> (1734–1803), ballet master in Sweden from 1773 to 1803; he is known as the parent of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Swedish_Ballet" title="Royal Swedish Ballet">Royal Swedish Ballet</a>.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Jean_Dauberval" title="Jean Dauberval">Jean Dauberval</a></b> (1742–1806), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Ballet_du_Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_de_l%27Acad%C3%A9mie_Royale_de_Musique" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique">Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique</a> from 1781 to 1783; he is known today as the father of the comedic ballet.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Gardel" title="Pierre Gardel">Pierre-Gabriel Gardel</a></b> (1758–1840), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Ballet_du_Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_de_l%27Acad%C3%A9mie_Royale_de_Musique" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique">Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique</a> from 1787 to 1820. After <a href="/wiki/Jean-Georges_Noverre" title="Jean-Georges Noverre">Noverre</a> he defended the <i><a href="/wiki/Ballet_d%27action" title="Ballet d'action">ballet d'action</a></i> in the early 19th century.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Salvatore_Vigan%C3%B2" title="Salvatore Viganò">Salvatore Viganò</a></b> (1769–1821), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Vienna_State_Opera" title="Vienna State Opera">Wiener Hofoper</a> from 1799 to 1803. Ballet master of <a href="/wiki/La_Scala_Theatre_Ballet" title="La Scala Theatre Ballet">La Scala Theatre Ballet</a> in <a href="/wiki/Milan" title="Milan">Milan</a> from 1811 to 1821. He is considered the father of a new kind of performance called <i>coreodramma</i>.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Filippo_Taglioni" title="Filippo Taglioni">Filippo Taglioni</a></b> (1777–1871), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Swedish_Ballet" title="Royal Swedish Ballet">Royal Swedish Ballet</a> in <a href="/wiki/Stockholm" title="Stockholm">Stockholm</a> from 1803 to 1804 and 1817–1818. Born and trained as a dancer in his native <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>, he is known today as the father of <a href="/wiki/Romanticism" title="Romanticism">Romantic</a> ballet. Also a great choreographer and teacher, he was instrumental in the training of his daughter, <a href="/wiki/Marie_Taglioni" title="Marie Taglioni">Marie Taglioni</a>.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Jean_Coralli" title="Jean Coralli">Jean Coralli</a></b> (1779–1854), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Ballet_du_Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_de_l%27Acad%C3%A9mie_Royale_de_Musique" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique">Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique</a> from 1831 to 1850. He was born Jean Coralli Perecini to <a href="/wiki/Bolognese" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolognese">Bolognese</a> parents in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Carlo_Blasis" title="Carlo Blasis">Carlo Blasis</a></b> (1797–1878), ballet master of <a href="/wiki/La_Scala_Theatre_Ballet_School" title="La Scala Theatre Ballet School">La Scala Theatre Ballet School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Milan" title="Milan">Milan</a> from 1838 to 1853. He was the first to publish a complete analysis of ballet techniques in 1820, in a work named <i>Traité élémentaire, théorique, et pratique de l'art de la danse</i> ("Elementary Treaty on the Art of the Dance, Theory and Practice").</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Mazilier" title="Joseph Mazilier">Joseph Mazilier</a></b>, born Giulio Mazarini (1801–1868), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Opera_Ballet" title="Paris Opera Ballet">Paris Opera Ballet</a> from 1853 to 1859. Ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/La_Monnaie" title="La Monnaie">Théatre Royal de la Monnaie</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a> from 1866 to 1867. His creations witnessed the switch of the European center of dance from <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> to <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a> with the end of the <a href="/wiki/Second_French_Empire" title="Second French Empire">Second Empire</a>.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/August_Bournonville" title="August Bournonville">August Bournonville</a></b> (1805–1879), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Danish_Ballet" title="Royal Danish Ballet">Royal Danish Ballet</a> from 1828 to 1879 and the most prolific choreographer <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a> has ever known.</li> <li><b>Paul Taglioni</b> (1808–1883), <i>Deuxieme Maître de Ballet</i> of the <a href="/wiki/Ballet_of_Her_Majesty%27s_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballet of Her Majesty's Theatre">Ballet of Her Majesty's Theatre</a> from 1847 to 1848, <i>Maître de Ballet en Chef</i> from 1849 to 1851. <i>Maître de Ballet en Chef</i> of the Court Opera Ballet in <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> from 1852 to 1866.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Jules_Perrot" title="Jules Perrot">Jules Perrot</a></b> (1810–1892), <i>Maître de Ballet en Chef</i> (first ballet master) of the <a href="/wiki/Ballet_of_Her_Majesty%27s_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballet of Her Majesty's Theatre">Ballet of Her Majesty's Theatre</a> from 1843 to 1848. <i>Maître de Ballet en Chef</i> to the <a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">St. Petersburg</a> Imperial Theatres from 1849 to 1859.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Christian_Johansson" title="Christian Johansson">Christian Johansson</a></b> (1817–1903), coaching ballet master/master teacher for the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Imperial_Ballet" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Imperial Ballet">Russian Imperial Ballet</a> from 1880 to 1900, particularly of the male students.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Marius_Petipa" title="Marius Petipa">Marius Petipa</a></b> (1818–1910), <i>Maître de Ballet</i> of the <a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">St. Petersburg</a> Imperial Theatres from 1871 to 1903, <i>Deuxieme Maître de Ballet</i> from 1862 to 1871. "The Father of Classical Ballet".</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Saint-L%C3%A9on" title="Arthur Saint-Léon">Arthur Saint-Léon</a></b>, born Arthur Michel (1821–1870), a Frenchman who was ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Opera_Ballet" title="Paris Opera Ballet">Paris Opera Ballet</a> from 1850 to 1853, then <i>Maître de Ballet en Chef</i> of the <a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">St. Petersburg</a> Imperial Theatres from 1859 until 1869.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Lev_Ivanov" title="Lev Ivanov">Lev Ivanov</a></b> (1834–1901), <i>Deuxieme Maître de Ballet</i> of the <a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">St. Petersburg</a> Imperial Theatres from 1885 to 1901.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Enrico_Cecchetti" title="Enrico Cecchetti">Enrico Cecchetti</a></b> (1850–1928), ballet master for the <a href="/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes">Ballets Russes</a> 1910.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Nicolai_Legat" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicolai Legat">Nicolai Legat</a></b> (1869–1937), ballet master in Russia.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Agrippina_Vaganova" title="Agrippina Vaganova">Agrippina Vaganova</a></b> (1879–1951), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Mariinsky_Ballet" title="Mariinsky Ballet">Kirov Ballet</a> from 1931 to 1937. She developed the <a href="/wiki/Vaganova_method" title="Vaganova method">Vaganova method</a>.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Michel_Fokine" title="Michel Fokine">Michel Fokine</a></b> (1880–1942), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Mariinsky_Ballet" title="Mariinsky Ballet">Mariinsky Ballet</a> from 1904 to 1909. Choreographer of the <a href="/wiki/Ballets_Russes" title="Ballets Russes">Ballets Russes</a> in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> from 1909 to 1923. Ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Danish_Ballet" title="Royal Danish Ballet">Royal Danish Ballet</a> in 1925.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/George_Balanchine" title="George Balanchine">George Balanchine</a></b> (1904–1983), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Danish_Ballet" title="Royal Danish Ballet">Royal Danish Ballet</a> from 1930 to 1931. Ballet master and director of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Ballet" title="New York City Ballet">New York City Ballet</a>, in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a> from 1949 to 1982.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Ashton" title="Frederick Ashton">Frederick Ashton</a></b> (1904–1988), ballet master, choreographer, and director of <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Royal_Ballet" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Ballet">Royal Ballet</a> from 1963 to 1970.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Serge_Lifar" title="Serge Lifar">Serge Lifar</a></b> (1905–1986), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Opera_Ballet" title="Paris Opera Ballet">Paris Opera Ballet</a> from 1930 to 1944 and 1947–1958. One of the precursors of the <a href="/wiki/Neoclassical_ballet" title="Neoclassical ballet">neoclassical</a> style.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Ivanovich_Pushkin" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin">Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin</a></b> (1907–1970), ballet master; among his students were <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Baryshnikov" title="Mikhail Baryshnikov">Mikhail Baryshnikov</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Nureyev" title="Rudolf Nureyev">Rudolf Nureyev</a>.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_de_%C3%81vila" class="mw-redirect" title="María de Ávila">María de Ávila</a></b> (1920-2014), ballet master and the creator of the Ballet de Zaragoza.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Roland_Petit" title="Roland Petit">Roland Petit</a></b> (1924–2011), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Ballet_national_de_Marseille" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballet national de Marseille">Ballet national de Marseille</a> from 1972 to 1998.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Maurice_B%C3%A9jart" title="Maurice Béjart">Maurice Béjart</a></b> (1927–2007), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/La_Monnaie" title="La Monnaie">Théatre Royal de la Monnaie</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a> from 1959 to 1987 where he founded the <a href="/wiki/Ballet_du_XXe_Si%C3%A8cle" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballet du XXe Siècle">Ballet du XXe Siècle</a>. Then he ran the <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9jart_Ballet_Lausanne" class="mw-redirect" title="Béjart Ballet Lausanne">Béjart Ballet Lausanne</a> in <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a> from 1987 to 2007.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_MacMillan" title="Kenneth MacMillan">Kenneth MacMillan</a></b> (1929–1992), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Oper_Berlin" title="Deutsche Oper Berlin">Deutsche Oper Berlin</a> from 1966 to 1969. Ballet master, choreographer, and director of England's <a href="/wiki/Royal_Ballet" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Ballet">Royal Ballet</a> from 1970 to 1977.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Vera_Shvetsova" title="Vera Shvetsova">Vera Shvetsova</a></b> (born 1929), ballet master of the State School of Ballet and Choreography of Minsk (Belarus).</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Rudolph_Nureyev" class="mw-redirect" title="Rudolph Nureyev">Rudolph Nureyev</a></b> (1938–1993), ballet master and director of the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Opera_Ballet" title="Paris Opera Ballet">Paris Opera Ballet</a> from 1983 to 1992. Before that, he enjoyed an illustrious career as a dancer in both the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> and in the west.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Dowell" title="Anthony Dowell">Anthony Dowell</a></b> (born 1943), ballet master and director of England's <a href="/wiki/Royal_Ballet" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Ballet">Royal Ballet</a> from 1986 to 2001.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/John_Neumeier" title="John Neumeier">John Neumeier</a></b> (born 1939), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Hamburg_Opera" class="mw-redirect" title="Hamburg Opera">Hamburg Opera Ballet</a> from 1973.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Laurent_Hilaire" title="Laurent Hilaire">Laurent Hilaire</a></b> (born 1962), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Opera_Ballet" title="Paris Opera Ballet">Paris Opera Ballet</a> from 2005.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Igor_Moiseyev" title="Igor Moiseyev">Igor Moiseyev</a></b> (1906-2007), ballet master of the <a href="/wiki/Bolshoi_Ballet" title="Bolshoi Ballet">Bolshoi Ballet</a> and later on the <a href="/wiki/Igor_Moiseyev_Ballet" title="Igor Moiseyev Ballet">Igor Moiseyev Ballet</a>. One of the greatest masters of <a href="/wiki/Character_dance" title="Character dance">character dance</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery_of_ballet_masters">Gallery of ballet masters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ballet_master&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Gallery of ballet masters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Filippo_Taglioni.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Filippo Taglioni, circa 1820"><img alt="Filippo Taglioni, circa 1820" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Filippo_Taglioni.jpg/95px-Filippo_Taglioni.jpg" decoding="async" width="95" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Filippo_Taglioni.jpg/142px-Filippo_Taglioni.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Filippo_Taglioni.jpg/190px-Filippo_Taglioni.jpg 2x" data-file-width="261" data-file-height="330" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Filippo Taglioni, circa 1820</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jules_Perrot_-circa_1850.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Jules Perrot, circa 1850"><img alt="Jules Perrot, circa 1850" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Jules_Perrot_-circa_1850.JPG/88px-Jules_Perrot_-circa_1850.JPG" decoding="async" width="88" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Jules_Perrot_-circa_1850.JPG/132px-Jules_Perrot_-circa_1850.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Jules_Perrot_-circa_1850.JPG/177px-Jules_Perrot_-circa_1850.JPG 2x" data-file-width="840" data-file-height="1140" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Jules Perrot, circa 1850</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Marius_Ivanovich_Petipa_-Feb._14_1898.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Marius Ivanovich Petipa"><img alt="Marius Ivanovich Petipa" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Marius_Ivanovich_Petipa_-Feb._14_1898.JPG/88px-Marius_Ivanovich_Petipa_-Feb._14_1898.JPG" decoding="async" width="88" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Marius_Ivanovich_Petipa_-Feb._14_1898.JPG/132px-Marius_Ivanovich_Petipa_-Feb._14_1898.JPG 1.5x, 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data-file-height="400" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Jean Coralli, one of the creators of the ballet <i>Giselle</i>, Paris, circa 1810</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Arthur_Saint-Leon_-photo_by_B._Braquehais_-circa_1865.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Arthur Saint-Léon, Paris, circa 1865"><img alt="Arthur Saint-Léon, Paris, circa 1865" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Arthur_Saint-Leon_-photo_by_B._Braquehais_-circa_1865.JPG/78px-Arthur_Saint-Leon_-photo_by_B._Braquehais_-circa_1865.JPG" decoding="async" width="78" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Arthur_Saint-Leon_-photo_by_B._Braquehais_-circa_1865.JPG/117px-Arthur_Saint-Leon_-photo_by_B._Braquehais_-circa_1865.JPG 1.5x, 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