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    Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo (15 April 1710 in Brussels – 28 April 1770 in Paris), sometimes known simply as La Camargo, was a French dancer. The first...
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  • Camargo may refer to: Camargo, Chuquisaca Camargo, Rio Grande do Sul Camargo Municipality, Chihuahua Camargo, Chihuahua, the municipal seat Camargo Municipality...
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    the standard women's ballet shoe had heels. Mid-18th century dancer Marie Camargo of the Paris Opéra Ballet was the first to wear a non-heeled shoe. After...
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    included La Camargo, which had premiered earlier in 1912 at the London Coliseum. In it she recreated the dancing of the great ballerina Marie Camargo. On 17...
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    footwork. Marie-Thérèse de Subligny (c. 1700) Françoise Prévost (c. 1723) Marie Camargo painted by Nicolas Lancret (c. 1730) Marie Sallé (c. 1730) Marie-Madeleine...
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  • Petipa is based on an incident in the life of the 18th-century dancer Marie Camargo, in which she and her sister Madeleine were abducted by the Comte de...
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    time, the standard women's ballet shoe had heels. In the 1730s, dancer Marie Camargo of the Paris Opéra Ballet was the first to wear a non-heeled shoe, enabling...
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    (seamstress), and dancer. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Marie Camargo influenced changes in dance costumes by abandoning the traditional corset...
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  • wore heeled shoes, until the 1730s, when Paris Opera Ballet dancer Marie Camargo was one of the first to wear ballet slippers instead. She also wore...
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    this solo to her two most accomplished female students: Marie Camargo and Marie Sallé. Camargo was the first to learn the solo for her debut at the Paris...
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