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Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo

1710 - 1770

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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 woman to execute the entrechat quatre, Camargo was also allegedly responsible for two innovations in ballet as she was one of the first dancers to wear slippers instead of heeled shoes, and, while there is no evidence that she was the first woman to wear the short calf-length ballet skirt, the now standardized ballet tights, she did help to popularize these. She is said to have been as strong as the male dancers. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo is the 27th most popular dancer (up from 34th in 2019). (up from 1,140th in 2019)

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Among dancers, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo ranks 27 out of 116. Before her are Alicia Alonso, Izumo no Okuni, Galina Ulanova, Bronislava Nijinska, Carlo Blasis, and Mary Wigman. After her are Olga Khokhlova, August Bournonville, Jules Perrot, Liane de Pougy, Pierre Beauchamp, and Alexander Godunov.

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Among people born in 1710, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo ranks 9. Before her are Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, Thomas Reid, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Muhammad bin Saud, András Hadik, and Domenico Alberti. After her are Mohammed ben Abdallah, Thomas Arne, Carl Alexander Clerck, Thomas Simpson, William Cullen, and James Ferguson. Among people deceased in 1770, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo ranks 7. Before her are Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, François Boucher, Giuseppe Tartini, Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, and Suzuki Harunobu. After her are Thomas Chatterton, George Grenville, Jean-Antoine Nollet, George Whitefield, James Stirling, and Martin van Meytens.

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