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Marie Taglioni

1804 - 1884

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Marie Taglioni, Comtesse de Voisins (23 April 1804 – 22 April 1884) was a Swedish-born ballet dancer of the Romantic ballet era partially of Italian descent, a central figure in the history of European dance. She spent most of her life in the Austrian Empire and France. She was one of the most celebrated ballerinas of the romantic ballet, which was cultivated primarily at Her Majesty's Theatre in London and at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique of the Paris Opera Ballet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie Taglioni has received more than 244,331 page views. Her biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Marie Taglioni is the 10th most popular dancer (up from 13th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 75th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Dancer.

Marie Taglioni is most famous for being the first ballerina to dance en pointe.

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  • 240k

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  • 65.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Marie Taglioni ranks 10 out of 116. Before her are Anna Pavlova, Josephine Baker, Vaslav Nijinsky, Pina Bausch, Bobby Farrell, and Marius Petipa. After her are Maurice Béjart, Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Maya Plisetskaya, Jean-Georges Noverre, and Martha Graham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Marie Taglioni ranks 15. Before her are Allan Kardec, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Mongkut, Mikhail Glinka, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Richard Owen. After her are Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Eugène Sue, John Deere, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, and Johan Ludvig Runeberg. Among people deceased in 1884, Marie Taglioni ranks 5. Before her are Gregor Mendel, Bedřich Smetana, Maria Anna of Savoy, and Elias Lönnrot. After her are Marie Bashkirtseff, Johann Gustav Droysen, Paul Morphy, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Hermann Kolbe, and Fanny Elssler.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Marie Taglioni ranks 80 out of 1,879. Before her are Princess Birgitta of Sweden (1937), Hannes Alfvén (1908), Sven Hedin (1865), Eric IX of Sweden (1120), Olof Skötkonung (980), and Eric the Victorious (945). After her are Harry Martinson (1904), Hugo Theorell (1903), Axel Oxenstierna (1583), Kai Siegbahn (1918), Charles VIII of Sweden (1409), and Kurt Hamrin (1934).

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Among DANCERS In Sweden

Among dancers born in Sweden, Marie Taglioni ranks 1. After her are Birgit Cullberg (1908).

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