Jean Coralli

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Jean Coralli, circa 1810

Jean Coralli (15 January 1779 – 1 May 1854), born Jean Coralli Peracini, was a French dancer and choreographer. He later held the esteemed post of First Ballet Master of the Paris Opera Ballet. He is best known for the creation of the Romantic ballet Giselle (1841). This ballet was choreographed in tandem with Jules Perrot.

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Name	Corrali, Jean
Alternative names
Short description	Ballet choreographer
Date of birth	15 January 1779
Place of birth
Date of death	1 May 1854
Place of death

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Ballets	Afternoon of a Faun • Ballet of the Nuns • Billy the Kid • Cinderella • Coppélia • Le Dieu bleu • La Fille Mal Gardée • Filling Station • The Firebird • Giselle • Jeux • Napoli • Les Noces • The Nutcracker • Paquita • Pas de Quatre • Petrushka • The Rite of Spring • The Sleeping Beauty • Le Spectre de la rose • Swan Lake • La Sylphide • Les Sylphides •

Librettists	Jean Cocteau • Théophile Gautier • Federico de Madrazo y Ochoa • Adolphe Nourrit • Jean-Louis Vaudoyer • Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges • Ivan Vsevolozhsky •

Composers	Adolphe Adam • Aaron Copland • Leo Delibes • Sergei Prokofiev • Igor Stravinsky • Tchaikovsky •

Choreographers	George Balanchine • August Bournonville • Jean Coralli • Michel Fokine • Alexander Gorsky • Lev Ivanov • Bronislava Nijinska • Jean Georges Noverre • Jules Perrot • Marius Petipa •

Dancers	Mikhail Baryshnikov • Antonietta Dell'Era • Adèle Dumilâtre • Margot Fonteyn • Carlotta Grisi • Mary Ann Lee • Nijinsky • Rudolph Nureyev • Anna Pavlova • Lucien Petipa • Marie Taglioni • Ninette de Valois •

Scenery and Costume Designers	Léon Bakst • Alexandre Benois • Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri • Jean Cocteau • Paul Lormier • Ivan Vsevolozhsky •

Ballet Companies	American Ballet Theatre • Ballets Russes • Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo • Bolshoi Ballet • Kirov Ballet • Paris Opera Ballet • Royal Ballet • Royal Danish Ballet •

Genres and types	Ballet blanc • Ballet d'action • Classical ballet • Romantic ballet

Other	Ballerina • Ballet flat • Ballet Master • Ballet shoe • Corps de ballet • Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy • Impresario • Sergei Diaghilev • The Nutcracker pas de deux • Pas de deux • Pointe shoes • Sugar Plum Fairy •