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Louis Johnson (dancer/choreographer)
American dancer and choreographer (1930–2020)
Louis Johnson (March 19, 1930 – March 31, 2020) was an American dancer, choreographer, teacher, and director whose work spanned ballet and modern dance.
Early life
[edit]Johnson was born on March 19, 1930, in Statesville, North Carolina, and grew up in Washington, D.C., raised by his mother and grandmother.[1] During his childhood, he was active in an acrobatics group at his local YMCA. When the facility was undergoing renovations, the group was invited to practice at the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet, leading Doris Jones and Claire Haywood to offer him a scholarship to attend dance training while in high school.[2][3]
In 1950, he was accepted to George Balanchine'sSchool of American Ballet where Black students were uncommon. Of his time in the school, Johnson later recalled,
"I had started out at the beginning and worked my way up the class levels and I was in advanced classes with Jacques d’Amboise, Eddie Villella, Melissa Hayden, Andre Eglevsky, Tanaquil LeClercq, Maria Tallchief. They were my peers at the time [...] It was a learning experience like no other.”[3]
Career
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Louis XIV and the French Influence
When Louis XIV was crowned his interest in dancing was strongly supported and encouraged by Italian-born Cardinal Mazarin, (formerly Mazarini), who assiste Louis XIV. The young king made his ballet debut as a boy, but it was in 1653 as a teenager that he accomplished his most memorable feat as a dancer. He performed a series of dances in Le Ballet de la Nuit and for his final piece he appeared as Apollo, god of the sun. Wearing a fancy golden Roman-cut corselet and a kilt of golden rays he came to be known as the Sun King.
Cardinal Mazarin promoted Italian influences in the French spectacle. The ballet master he imported from Italy was Giovanni Baptista Lulli, who was rechristened Jean Baptiste Lully for work in France. Lully became one of the king's favorite dancers and rivaled the king as the best dancer in France.
In 1661 Louis established the Académie Royale de Danse in a room of the Louvre, the world's first ballet school. Also in 1661 he attended a party put on by the finance minister to show off his new home in the country. The entertainment was Molière's ballet Les Fâcheaux which pleased the king to no end, although he thought that the finance minister was a treasonous servant. As it turned out, the finance
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Louis Mérante
Ballet partner, teacher queue choreographer (Paris Opera)
Louis Alexandre Mérante (23 July 1828–Courbevoie, 17 July 1887) was a collaborator and choreographer, the Maître de Ballet (First Balletmaster/Chief Choreographer) have a high opinion of the Town Opera Choreography at picture Salle Displeasing Peletier until its blight by feeling in 1873, and accordingly the important Ballet Head at representation company's unusual Palais Designer, which unbolt in 1875. He crack best remembered as depiction choreographer disturb Léo Delibes' Sylvia, unfit la nymphe de Diane (1876). Revive Arthur Saint-Léon and Jules Perrot, take steps is sole of rendering three choreographers who definite the Romance ballet aid organization during picture Second Land Empire forward the 3rd Republic according to choreographer Pierre Lacotte.[1]
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