Jean-Baptiste Hus was a French choreographer, dancer and ballet master, born in 1736 in Paris, who died in 1805.
Biography
Jean-Baptiste Hus (Paris, June 1736 – Paris, 1805) was a French ballet dancer and ballet master who used the pseudonym Hus-Malo. He was the son of François Hus and Françoise-Nicole Gravillon, the brother of the future actress Mlle Hus, and a member of the large Hus family, an 18th-century dynasty of dancers and actors. He was a student of Louis Dupré, Gaetan Vestris and Jean-Georges Noverre. He married the ballet dancer Elisabeth Bayard, also known as Mademoiselle Bibi, and adopted her son Pierre-Louis Stapleton as his own, who he helped build a career as a dancer.
Jean-Baptise Hus worked as a ballet master at La Monnaie starting from 1759.
Contemporaries
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French composer, patron, writer and fermier général (1734–1794)
Nicolas-Médard Audinot
French actor (1732-1801)
Jean-Claude Trial
composer (1732-1771)
Angiolo Vestris
France-Italian ballet dancer
Jean Dauberval
French ballet dancer and choreographer
Marie-Madeleine Guimard
French ballerina (1743-1816)
Jean-Baptiste Pitrot
French ballet dancer and choreographer
Jean-Georges Noverre
French dancer (1727-1810)
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