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La Camargo Dancing La Camargo Dancing, oil painting of Marie-Anne Camargo by Nicolas Lancret, 1730; in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France.

Marie Camargo

French ballerina
Also known as: Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo
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Marie Camargo (born April 15, 1710, Brussels, Spanish Netherlands [now in Belgium]—died April 20, 1770, Paris, France) was a ballerina of the Paris Opéra remembered for her numerous technical innovations. Camargo studied in Paris under Françoise Prevost and danced in Brussels and Rouen before her Paris Opéra debut in 1726 in Les Caractères de la danse. Her success provoked the jealousy of her aging teacher, Prevost, who relegated her to the ensemble. She soon won...

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