Angiolo Vestris

Angiolo Maria Gasparo Vestris (19 November 1730,

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- 10 June 1809,

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) was a Franco-Italian ballet dancer. The younger brother of Gaétan Vestris and Thérèse Vestris, he studied dance with Louis Dupré and became a soloist of the

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in 1753. He then danced at Stuttgart under the direction of

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(also marrying Rose Gourgaud, daughter of the comic-actor Dugazon, in the town in 1766) before returning to Paris in 1767, where he was taken on as an actor at the

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. 1730 births 1809 deaths French male stage actors Italian emigrants to France French male ballet dancers Italian male ballet dancers Italian male stage actors People from Florence 18th-century French male actors 18th-century Italian male actors 18th-century Italian ballet dancers 18th-century French ballet dancers Vestris family {{Italy-bio-stub