Marie Sallé

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Maurice Quentin de La Tour : Portrait of Marie Sallé (1741), Museu Calouste Gulbenkian , Lisbon

Marie Sallé (* around 1707; † July 27, 1756 ) was a French dancer , contemporary and rival of Marie Camargo .

Marie grew up in the milieu of the Parisian fair theater . Her father was a minor fair dancer or acrobat. In 1718 she made her debut at the Foire Saint-Laurent in Paris in “La Princesse de Carisme”, a comic opera by Alain Lesage . She later became a student of Françoise Prévost .

Then, from 1725 to 1727, she went to London. It was only after she had sensational success there that she was engaged at the Paris Opera . She made her operatic debut on September 14, 1727, in a pas de deux with David Dumoulin .

literature

  • Karl Viktor Prinz zu Wied: queens of ballet. 200 years of European ballet . List, Munich 1961 (List books; 194).

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personal data
SURNAME Sallé, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french dancer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1707
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1756