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His father was an adjutant of Charles XII of Sweden. Noverre
learned dance from Louis Dupre and Martel and later studied
Mime with David Garrick while in England.
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Jean
Georges Noverre was a famous French Choreographer and reformer
of the Ballet and was the father of the Action Ballet (Ballet
d' action.) Noverre made his debut at the Market Theater
in Paris in 1743 and later in Potsdam. Noverre Staged his
first ballet at the Opera Comique called Les Fetes Chinoises
in 1749. Noverre
was the ballet master in Stuttgart for the Wuerttemberg
Ballet in 1760 and later the Paris Opera in 1776 thanks
to Marie Antoinette (he was her teacher.) During
his life he wrote more than 150 Ballets.---
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Noverre is credited as adding many principles to the ballet
that are still used today. His dislike for the Masks, used
in many of the ballets, led him to produce ballets without
the use of masks, which finally caught on and finally be
discontinued by 1773 when the famous dancer Maximillien
Gardel discarded his mask in his performances at the Paris
Opera, today no masks are used. Noverre died in Saint-Germain,
France.
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