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Jean-Baptiste Landé (died 26 February 1748) was a French ballet dancer, active in Sweden, Denmark and Russia. He is the founder of the Russian Ballet Mariinsky Ballet.
in JSTOR
* Gidlunds förlag: ''Ny svensk teaterhistoria. Teater före 1800'' (New Swedish theatre history. Theatre before 1800)
michaelminn.net
* ttp://www.bournonville.com/bournonville46mainFrame.html#3 The history of the Royal Danish Ballet, by Erik Aschengreen {{DEFAULTSORT:Lande, Jean-Baptiste 18th-century French male actors French male stage actors Swedish theatre directors French male ballet dancers Russian male ballet dancers French ballet masters Year of birth missing 1748 deaths 18th-century ballet dancers from the Russian Empire 18th-century French ballet dancers 18th-century theatre managers
Jean-Baptiste Landé (died 26 February 1748) was a French ballet dancer, active in Sweden, Denmark and Russia. He is the founder of the Russian Ballet Mariinsky Ballet.
Sweden
Landé was employed at the Polish royal court inDresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...
when he was engaged by King Frederick I of Sweden in 1721. He was appointed dancing master of the Swedish court and in 1723 he became the director of the French Opera-Theatre in Bollhuset in Stockholm, which he named ''L'Académie royale de musique et de danse''. In 1726, he was a guest ballet master at the first theatre in Denmark, the Lille Grönnegade theatre
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(1722-1728), where he performed with his wife.
Denmark
He left Sweden in 1728, after a conflict withCharles Langlois (actor)
Charles Langlois (1692–1762) was a French actor who spent a large part of his career in Sweden, where he was to play an important part in Swedish theatre history as the originator of the first national theatre in Sweden, and its first direct ...
, who intruded on his theatre privilege by arranging his own plays at Bollhuset. He went to Denmark, where the only previous theatre had been closed in 1728, and tried to start his own theatre, but theatre was banned in Denmark in 1730-1746, and he supported himself as a dance teacher.
Russia
In 1734 he was invited to Russia, where he was made dance master at the military academy. After a ballet performance forEmpress Anna
Anna Ioannovna (russian: Анна Иоанновна; ), also russified as Anna Ivanovna and sometimes anglicized as Anne, served as regent of the duchy of Courland from 1711 until 1730 and then ruled as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740. Much ...
in 1735, the Russian Ballet School was established in 1738 with Landé as its ballet master. He educated the first dancers in Russia, which were taken from the staff at the royal palace: Timofei Bublikov, Nikolai Choglokov, Afanasy Toporkov, Ivan Shatilov, Nikolai Tolubeyev, Sergei Chalyshkin, Andrei Samarin and Andrei Nesterov, and among the females Yelizaveta, Avdotia Timofeyeva and Aksinya Sergeeva.
Landé was the dance instructor of Catherine the Great after her arrival in Russia in 1744.Henri Troyat: ''Catherine the Great'' (1987)
References
Other sources
* Samuel H. Cross, "The Russian Ballet Before Dyagilev." ''Slavonic and East European Review. American Series'' 3.4 (1944): 19-49in JSTOR
* Gidlunds förlag: ''Ny svensk teaterhistoria. Teater före 1800'' (New Swedish theatre history. Theatre before 1800)
External links
michaelminn.net
* ttp://www.bournonville.com/bournonville46mainFrame.html#3 The history of the Royal Danish Ballet, by Erik Aschengreen {{DEFAULTSORT:Lande, Jean-Baptiste 18th-century French male actors French male stage actors Swedish theatre directors French male ballet dancers Russian male ballet dancers French ballet masters Year of birth missing 1748 deaths 18th-century ballet dancers from the Russian Empire 18th-century French ballet dancers 18th-century theatre managers