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Léo Staats
Born1877
Died1952
NationalityFrench
Known forDance and choreography
MovementBallet

Léo Staats (1877 - 1952) was a French dancer, choreographer and director.

Life and career

Léo Staats studied ballet with Francis Merante, a dancer at the Paris Opera, and reportedly made his debut in 1887. In 1908 he became Ballet Master at the Paris Opera. From 1926-28 he served as the first choreographer for shows at the Roxy movie palace in New York City. His choreography style was described as Neo-classical.

Works

Selected works include:

  • La nuit de Valpurgis (Faust) (1908, Gounod)
  • Namouna (1908, Lalo)
  • Javotte (1909, Saint-Saëns)
  • Espana (1911, Chabrier)
  • Les folies françaises ou Les Dominos (1911, Couperin)
  • Les abeilles (1917, Stravinsky)
  • Taglioni chez Musette (1920, Auber, Boieldieu, Meyerbeer, Weckerlin)
  • Frivolant (1922, Poueigh)
  • Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied (1923, Pierné)
  • La nuit ensorcelée (1923, Chopin)
  • Siang-Sin (1923, Huë)
  • Istar (1924, D'Indy)
  • Soir de fête (1925, Delibes)
  • Orphée (1926, Ducasse)
  • La prêtresse de Koridwen (1926, Ladmirault)
  • Impressions de music-hall (1926, Pierné)
  • L'écran des jeunes filles (1929, Roland-Manuel)
  • Le rustre imprudent (1931, Fouret)
  • Un jardin sur l'Oronte (1932, Bachelet)
  • Roselinde (1933, Hirschmann)
  • Le rouet d'Armor (1936, Piriou)
  • Iléana (1936, Bertrand)

References

  1. Beaumont, Cyril William (1941). Complete book of ballets: a guide to the principal ballets of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
  2. Dorris, George (1995). "Léo Staats at the Roxy, 1926-28". Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research. 13 (1): 84–99. doi:10.2307/1290902. JSTOR 1290902.
  3. Kisselgoff, Anna (22 October 1989). "DANCE VIEW; American Modern Isn't at Home in Germany". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 January 2012.


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