# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marius-petipa
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:59:19.683Z

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description: "He made ballet what audiences still recognize: the full-length story ballets with their big ensemble dances, the finger-turn fouettés, the structure that lets a ballerina own a stage for three acts. Petipa ran the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg for over three decades and created the blueprint — The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake's surviving version, The Nutcr"
tagline: "French-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (1818–1910)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in France in 1818, Petipa danced his way to Russia and by 1871 held the top post at the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, a perch he kept until 1903. Over those years he created more than fifty ballets — The Pharaoh's Daughter in 1862, Don Quixote in 1869, La Bayadère in 1877, then the trio that hardened into canon: The Sleeping Beauty in 1890, The Nutcracker with Lev Ivanov in 1892, Raymonda in 1898. He also revived and reset works by others — Giselle, Le Corsaire, Swan Lake — and those revivals became the versions that survived him. When he died in 1910 at ninety-two, individual pas de deux from his ballets had already split off and started touring the world on their own, small pieces of a system he'd spent a lifetime building.