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Auguste Vestris, detail of an aquatint by F. Bartolozzi and B. Pastorini, 1781, after a portrait by Nathaniel Dance.
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Auguste Vestris, detail of an aquatint by F. Bartolozzi and B. Pastorini, 1781, after a portrait by Nathaniel Dance.
Auguste Vestris, detail of an aquatint by F. Bartolozzi and B. Pastorini, 1781, after a portrait by Nathaniel Dance.

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Ivor Guest
Ballet historian. Author of The Ballet of the Enlightenment, Ballet in Leicester Square, Jules Perrot, The Romantic Ballet in Paris and others.
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Vestris family, a family of dancers who dominated French ballet for nearly a century, most notably Gaétan Vestris (in full Gaetano Apollino Baldassare Vestri, or Vestris; b. April 18, 1729, Florence, Italy—d. September 23, 1808, Paris, France) and his son Auguste Vestris (in full Marie-Jean-Augustin Vestris; b. March 27, 1760, Paris—d. December 5, 1842, Paris). The dynasty of Vestris in the annals of ballet was founded by the engagement at the Paris Opéra in 1749 of Gaétan Vestris as principal male dancer in the serious, or noble, style (one of the three categories for principal dancers in use at the ...(100 of 826 words)

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