Marie-Anne Cupis de Camargo , also Mademoiselle Camargo , La Camargo ( Marie-Anne Cupis de Camargo , née Marie-Anne Quipy; 1710 - 1770 ) - ballet dancer , first dancer of the Royal Academy of Music of Paris in 1726-1735 and 1742-1751 years. Repeatedly painted by the artist Nikola Lancre .
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| Birth name | Marie-Anne Kyupi |
| Date of Birth | 1710 |
| Place of Birth | Brussels |
| Date of death | 1770 |
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| Citizenship |  France |
| Profession | ballet dancer |
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Biography
She studied dance with the ballerina Francoise Prevost , however, the rebellious nature of the young student and freedom-loving mores led to conflict. After Prevost refused the pupil, Marie-Anne began to engage with Michelle Blondi [1] .
Camargo is known as a ballet dance reformer. In 1730 , she was the first of the women to begin performing on-stage cabrioles and anthrash , which until then were considered to belong to the technique of exclusively male dance [2] . Shortened skirts to be able to move more freely. Among the partners was Antoine Laval .
She enjoyed great success with the public - her grace delighted many famous people of that time, including Voltaire . She also performed as a singer. She danced at the Royal Academy of Music until 1751 .
On the stage of the Paris Opera House, Camargo debuted on May 5, 1726. She danced in a huge number of ballets and theatrical ballet performances.
At the urging of her lover, Count Clermont, Camargo left the scene in 1734. However, six years later, in 1741, she continued her performances at the Grand Opera. After her return to the stage, Camargo was a huge success. The grace of Camargo, full of cheerfulness and brilliance, her cheerfulness and virtuosity of dancing, led to the delight of many famous and famous people in Europe.
Marie-Anne de Kyupi Camargo finally left the ballet in 1751, was gifted with a magnificent royal pension worth 1,500 pounds. Marie-Anna de Kyupi Camargo passed away in Paris on April 28, 1771. Camargo was buried in the Church of St. Roch in white robes and a white coffin, according to the custom adopted in those days for unmarried women.
Memory
A portrait of Camargo with the designation of the year of her debut ( 1726 ), painted by Gustave Boulanger based on a painting by Lankre , is located on the frieze of the Grand Opera Dance Foyer among the other twenty portraits of outstanding opera dancers of the late XVII - mid XIX centuries.
Notes
- ↑ D. M. Truskinovskaya . "100 Great Masters of Ballet", sheet 4, Publisher: Veche, 2010, ISBN 978-5-9533-4373-2
- ↑ S. N. Khudekov. General history of dance. - Moscow: Eksmo. - ISBN 978-5-699-32891-8 .
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