Biography of professional dancers
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Mistriss SALLÉ toujours errante,
Et toujours vivant mécontente …
Mistress Sallé, forever wandering and forever discontented …
Shortly after Marie Sallé’s return to Paris in the summer of 1735, at the end of what turned out to be her last season in London, the Abbé Prévost’s journal, Le Pour et Contre, gave an account of an incident at Covent Garden that would certainly have explained her reason for leaving London in a state of discontent. This incident had supposedly occurred during a performance of the ballet scenes in Handel’s new opera Alcina, choreographed by Sallé herself:
People unashamedly hissed her [onstage] in the theatre. The opera Alcina was being performed. Mademoiselle Sallé had composed a Ballet, in which she took the role of Cupid, a role she danced in male attire. It is said that this attire ill-suits her and was apparently the cause of her fall from grace. [Emphasis added.]
On n’a pas eu honte de la siffler en plein théâtre. On jouait l’Opéra d’Alcine. Mademoiselle Sallé avait composé un Ballet, dans lequel elle se chargea du rôle de Cupidon, qu’elle entreprit de danser en habit d’homme. Cet habit, dit- on, lui sied mal, et fut apparemment la cause de sa disgrâce.
These events are widely assumed to have taken place at
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Ballroom Genie
Ballroom Genie Dancers
Jonathan Crossley and Lyn Marriner
Jonathan and Lyn both started dancing at just 4 years old and enjoyed competitive success from an early age, between them winning the British Juvenile, Junior, Youth and Amateur Ballroom Championships.
They formed a professional partnership in 2003, and went on to win the British Professional Championships. They have also been UK, International, European and World Professional Finalists. They now travel the world teaching and adjudicating. Jonathan is also one of the organisers of Freedom to Dance.
We are very grateful to Jon and Lyn for kindly (and bravely!) allowing their dancing to be motion-captured for Ballroom Genie right from the start.
Alexander Zhiratkov and Irina Novozhilova
Alexander and Irina are both from Siberia, but met in Hong Kong. Alex started dancing at 9 years old, Irina at 4. Both started competitive careers, with Irina reaching the World Amateur 10-Dance Finals.
Having decided to stop competing and focus on teaching, they each moved to Hong Kong. In 2008 they tried dancing together with immediate success, and decided to dance competitively again.
They are now World Professional Ballroom Showdance Champions, Russian Champions, and International, European, World, Briti