André Isidore Carey (c. 1790, Paris – ?) was a French ballet dancer. A student of

Auguste Vestris Marie-Jean-Augustin Vestris, known as Auguste Vestris (27 March 1760 – 5 December 1842), was a French dancer. He was born in Paris, the illegitimate son of Gaétan Vestris and Marie Allard (1742–1802). His father was a Florentine dancer who ...

, he arrived in

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in 1815 as

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in the

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until 1823. He débuted in December 1815 in ''

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'' by

Jean Dauberval Jean Dauberval, a.k.a. Jean D’Auberval, (born Jean Bercher in Montpellier, 19 August 1742 – Tours, 14 February 1806), was a French dancer and ballet master. He is most noted for creating the ballet, ''La fille mal gardée'', one of the ...

, choreographed by Jean-Baptiste Brulo and with a company also including

Sophie Daguin Sophie Marguerite Daguin (26 March 1801 – 13 March 1881) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer. She spent her career in Sweden, where she became a star ballerina and ballet mistress of the Royal Swedish Ballet, and the principal of t ...

. In 1820, he succeeded

Filippo Taglioni Filippo Taglioni (aka Philippe Taglioni; 5 November 1777 – 11 February 1871) was an Italian dancer and choreographer and personal teacher to his own daughter, Romantic ballerina Marie Taglioni. (He had another child who also danced ballet, ...

as ballet master and dance director. Leaving Sweden in 1823, Carey danced in

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in 1823–24, Milan and Naples in 1828–29, Moscow in 1838 and finally setting up home in Amsterdam, where he was partner to

Madame Montessu Pauline-Euphrosine Paul (5 June 1803, in Marseille – 1 August 1877, in Amiens) was a French ballet dancer.Jean-Philippe Van Aelbrouck: Dictionnaire des danseurs: chorégraphes et maîtres de danse à Bruxelles de ... ' She married the dancer La ...

. His date of retirement is unknown. For a long while he corresponded with

August Bournonville August Bournonville (21 August 1805 – 30 November 1879) was a Danish ballet master and choreographer. He was the son of Antoine Bournonville, a dancer and choreographer trained under the French choreographer, Jean Georges Noverre, and the nep ...

who was teaching Carey's sons Gustave and Édouard. He married the French ballerina

Josephine Sainte-Claire Josephine Gabrielle Marcelle Meunier Sainte-Claire (20 April 1793 – after 1823) was a French ballerina. She was born in Paris to Joseph Marcel Meunier Sainte-Claire and Julienne Buisson. She was premier dancer at the Imperial Ballet in Saint P ...

in Stockholm in 1821Fredrik August Dahlgren (in Swedish): Förteckning öfver svenska skådespel uppförda på Stockholms theatrar 1737–1863 och Kongl. Theatrarnes personal 1773–1863. Med flera anteckningar.

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