Louis-Guillaume Pécour

Dancer, choreographer and educator. – Disciple of Beauchamps. – Member of the Académie Royale de Danse. – Debuted at the Court in 1673 in “Psyché”, participated in most of Lully’s operas. – Soloist from 1680, he stopped appearing on stage around 1702. – Along with Lestang, appointed ballet composer for the Opéra in 1687, he participated in the Court masquerades and parties held by the Duchess of Maine. – He worked for the Collège de Louis le Grand de la Compagnie de Jésus, as soloist and apparently as choreographer in collaboration with his Master, Pierre Beauchamps, from 1691 at least. He succeeded his Master from 1697 to 1709.

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