History of marie taglioni
History of marie taglioni
Marie taglioni ballerina.
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MARIE TAGLIONI (April 23, – April 24, )
Marie Taglioni was born in in Stockholm, Sweden, in a dancing family.
Her father, the Italian Filippo Taglioni, was a well-known dancer and choreographer, with a brother, Salvatore Taglioni, who was a dance master in Naples, Italy.
On the other hand her mother, Sophie Karsten, daughter of the noted singer Christopher Karsten, was an actor and dancer too.
Sophie and Filippo had two sons, Marie and Paul, who became a dancer and choreographer, and was the partner of Marie is some of her performances.
“Will that little hunchback even learn to dance?”
Marie Taglioni started taking ballet lessons at a very young age, but her teacher discarded her soon (in , at the age of six) because of her hunchback.
This was the reason why her father Filippo decided to start teaching her ballet with a really hard training to follow, composed of six hours of daily practice. H