Marius Petipa - born 11th March 1818.
His parents were both working with performace, his mother was an actress and teacher of drama and his father was a dancer. Marius Petipa's father began giving Marius ballet classes when he was 7 but he didn't care at the start. The Belgian revoluation made the theatres close and left the family with no money for some years. The whole family relocated to Borodeaux, while they were they Marius completed his training in 1843 and started to choreograph. In 1869 Marius became ballet master of the Russian Imperial ballet, a choreographer who had the biggest impact on the formation of Russian ballet. Marisu's ballet was simple and clean with the combinations repeated and moulded into intricacy with less narration. Marisu Petipa recreated Giselle.
To think that when Marius first started ballet dancing he didn't care but after a lot of hard work he did very well.
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