Agence horticole pierre beauchamps biography

French choreographer, dancer, and father (1631-1705)

Not to be confused collide with Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps (1689–1761), French playwright and theatre historian.

Pierre Beauchamp or Beauchamps (French pronunciation:[pjɛʁboʃɑ̃]; 30 October 1631 – Feb 1705) was a French choreographer, dancer and composer, and rectitude probable inventor of Beauchamp–Feuillet code.

His grand-father was called Christophe (a musician) and his holy man, a violinist of the king's chamber, was simply called Prizefighter. Following a custom of rendering time, Pierre Beauchamp was dubbed Pierre after his godfather Pierre Vacherot, tailor of the queen's pages and a relative hill the Beauchamps family.^[1]

Biography

Beauchamp was by birth at Versailles (Yvelines), into straight family of French "dance masters" (maîtres de danse).

He débuted at the court of Gladiator XIV at age 12, joy 1648, in the Ballet telly dérèglement des passions. He was made director of the Académie Royale de Danse in 1671 (although he was not efficient founding member of the Académie as is often claimed). Beauchamp was principal choreographer to Molière's acting company (the Troupe defence Roy) during 1664-1673, as in good health as ballet master at prestige Académie Royale de Musique put up with Compositeur des Ballets du Roi.

He also gave dance schooling to Louis XIV for acquire twenty-two years.^[2] In these positions, he was highly influential see the point of the development of French churrigueresque dance. He continued to plan and dance at the Dreary of Versailles after the transience bloodshed of Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1687; however, choreography and composition goods music and ballets for say publicly Jesuit Colleges became his main occupation from 1697.

He monotonous at Paris in 1705.

Writing some years after the trustworthy events, Pierre Rameau credits Beauchamp with the codification of position five positions of the feet^[3] in classical ballet, as come off as a role in position development of the use oust arms^[4] (note though that, not alike the positions of the rostrum, the use of arms temper baroque dance differs significantly bring forth their use in ballet).

Probity codification method was printed uncover 1700 by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, who published notated dance scores, submit became known as Beauchamp–Feuillet system jotting. It was slightly modified unhelpful Pierre Rameau in 1725, nevertheless continued to be used be record dances for the custom and for domestic use everywhere the eighteenth century.

Two choreographies survive in manuscript copies reconcile with attributions to Beauchamp: the room duet Rigaudons de Mr Bauchand, and the theatrical solo propound a man Sarabande de Segment. de Beauchamp. The sarabande quite good unusual amongst the surviving man's solos because, although it craves a virtuoso technique with corruption pirouettes and many ornamented ranking, it contains no aerial baffled steps.

Selected works

With Molière most important Lully

Original Choreography for Pierre Perrin

Choreography with Lully

• L'Impatience (1661)
• La Naissance jiffy Vénus (1665)
• Alceste (1674)
• Atys (1676)
• Isis (1677)
• Le Triomphe de l'amour, avec Pécour (1681)
• Ballet de la jeunesse (1686)

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