Throwback Thursday and Alexander Placide
Born in France in 1750, Alexander Bussart
Placide was a dancer, mime, acrobat and impresario. He studied dance in Paris
and performed as a tightrope walker in the court of Louis XVI.
In 1792 he performed in a ballet called The Bird Catcher in New York. He went on
to create a dance and pantomime company in Charleston, South Carolina. Here he
produced ballets like Jean-Georges
Noverre’s Caprices de Galathée and Maximilien
Gardel’s Chercheuse d’esprit (Searchers for Spirit).
In 1796 he wed actress and dancer
Charlotte Sophia Wrighten. Their son Henry, born in 1799, grew up to become one
of the most popular actors of his generation in the United States.
Also
in 1796, he became the manager of the Charleston Theater and led the Charleston
Company that toured Georgia and Virginia. This company is considered to be the beginning
of permanent theater in the United States. He also led companies in Savannah,
Augusta, Richmond, Norfolk, Newport, RI, and New York.
He died on July 26, 1812 in New York
City and is buried in St. Patrick’s Old
Cathedral Churchyard in Manhattan.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Dance History Secret #319:
“Alexander Placide was one
of the first ballet dancers in America.”
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“Create.
Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure
joy of creating something and sharing it.”
― Ernest Barbaric
― Ernest Barbaric
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