Marius Petipa

French-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (1818–1910)

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Lived 1818–1910, aged 92France
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    1818–1910
    Aged 92
  • Known for
    Bolshoi Ballet: Raymonda
    2019
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Updated 2026-08-18

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

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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…

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