Jean-Louis Aumer
Jean -Pierre Aumer (* April 21, 1774 or 1776 in Strasbourg, † July 1833 in Saint -Martin -de- Boscherville ), was a French dancer and choreographer.
Life
Aumer studied with Jean Dauberval in Bordeaux and danced from 1791 to 1792 in the troupe in London. In 1794 he danced in London troupe of Jean -Georges Noverre, 1795 at King 's Theatre. In 1798 he made his debut at the Opéra in Paris. From 1804 to 1806 he was ballet master at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint -Martin, where he staged some of Dauberval ballets, including La Fille mal gardée. Most works were written for the Théâtre de la Porte St. Martin, including the so- successful ballet Les Deux Créoles ( Music: Henri Darondeau, 1806), which is based on Jacques -Henri Bernardin de Saint- Pierre's Paul et Virginie story (1787 ). In his stage work, he followed Dauberval principles of ballet d'action, where the dramatic action is told mainly including the use of meaningful pantomime. In 1807 he was ballet master in Lyon.
In 1808 he was invited to bring out the work at the Paris Opéra. His ballet Les Amours d' Antoine et de Cléopâtre (music: Rodolphe Kreutzer ) was very successful and even impressed Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, so he was hired in 1808 as a ballet master at the Court Theatre of Kassel, where he remained until 1814.
In 1814 he was short in Lyon. From 1814 to 1820, he worked in Vienna, where he choreographed numerous ballets and divertissements ( dancing ) and, among others, Fanny Elssler taught at the Theater am Kärntnertor. In 1821 he went back with high expectations as ballet master to Paris, where he worked from 1826 to 1830 in succession to Louis Milon as the second ballet master. Although he again staged two works by Dauberval and also many of his own ballets brought out, including La Belle au bois dormant (Music: Ferdinand Herold ( 1791-1833 ), 1829) and Manon Lescaut (music: Jacques Fromental Halévy, 1830) could, he at not connect the earlier successes. His works have now been criticized because of the extensive use of pantomime, and his inability to create a dance that both the character recorded as served the progress of the action. 1826 married his daughter Sophie -Julie dancer Étienne Leblond. In 1831 he retired from the stage and died two years later.