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Julia Mierzyńska
Julia Mierzyńska (1801 – 1831), was a well-known Polish prima ballerina, choreographer, actor and educator. She appeared with the ballet at the National Theatre, Warsaw between 1815 and 1826.Słownik Biograficzny Teatru Polskiego 1765–1965, PWN Warszawa 1973 Biography Mierzyńska was born in Vilnius, the daughter of actor Andrzej Mierzyński and Teresa (née Chilińska). During the years 1817–1826 she was a prima ballerina of the Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ... Ballet, and a choreographer and teacher. She also studied acting at the Warsaw Drama School under the supervision of Bonawentura Kudlicz and dance under Gaetano Petinetti. Her first stage performance took place on 2 July 1816 in the role of Love in the ballet ''Diana and Endymion'' at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilnius
Vilnius ( , ) is the capital of and List of cities in Lithuania#Cities, largest city in Lithuania and the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, most-populous city in the Baltic states. The city's estimated January 2025 population was 607,667, and the Vilnius urban area (which extends beyond the city limits) has an estimated population of 747,864. Vilnius is notable for the architecture of its Vilnius Old Town, Old Town, considered one of Europe's largest and best-preserved old towns. The city was declared a World Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The architectural style known as Vilnian Baroque is named after the city, which is farthest to the east among Baroque architecture, Baroque cities and the largest such city north of the Alps. The city was noted for its #Demographics, multicultural population during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, with contemporary sources comparing it to Babylon. Before World War II and The Holocaust in Lithuania, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Theatre, Warsaw
The National Theatre () in Warsaw, Poland, was founded in 1765, during the Polish Enlightenment, by that country's List of Polish monarchs, monarch, Stanisław August Poniatowski. The theatre shares the Grand Theatre, Warsaw, Grand Theatre complex at Theatre Square (Warsaw), Theatre Square in Warsaw with another national venue, Poland's National Opera, Warsaw, National Opera. History Opera was brought to Poland by future King Władysław IV Vasa within twenty years of the first opera presentations in Florence. In 1628 he invited the first Italian opera company to Warsaw. Upon ascending the Polish throne in 1632, he built a theatre in his castle, and regular opera performances were produced there by an Italian company directed by Marco Scacchi. The first public opera-theater in Poland, the ''Operalnia'' in Warsaw, was opened on July 3, 1748. It was located in the Saxon Garden (at today's intersection of Marszałkowska Street of Królewska Street) and functioned under royal patron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a Warsaw metropolitan area, greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 6th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises List of districts and neighbourhoods of Warsaw, 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is classified as an Globalization and World Cities Research Network#Alpha 2, alpha global city, a major political, economic and cultural hub, and the country's seat of government. It is also the capital of the Masovian Voivodeship. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazur (dance)
The Mazur is a Polish folk and ballroom dance with origins in the region of Mazovia. It is one of the five Polish national dances. History The Mazur was known in Poland already in the 15th century and by the 17th century it became a popular court dance. Dance The Mazur is performed in 3/4 or 3/8 time and lively tempo. It is characterized by its tendency to accent the second or third beat and a rhythmic figure of a 4-syllable group, consisting of two quavers (eighth notes) and two crotchets (quarter notes), and is a joyful, dynamic dance. The man leading the Mazur is called a "wodzirej". See also *Mazurka The Mazurka ( Polish: ''mazurek'') is a Polish musical form based on stylised folk dances in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, with character defined mostly by the prominent mazur's "strong accents unsystematically placed on the seco ... References Polish dances {{Poland-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Pion
Maurice Pion (11 September 1801, Paris – 14 February 1869, Warsaw)Pion Maurice // Słownik biograficzny teatru polskiego 1765—1965, Warszawa: PWN, 1973, s. 547—548. was a French ballet dancer, director of the Warsaw Ballet and head of the ballet school in Warsaw, director of an itinerant ballet company. Biography Theater career He began his career at the "Ambigu" theater in Paris. In 1818 he arrived in Warsaw with a group of French dancers and then (until 1825) was the first dancer of the Warsaw Ballet. In 1823, together with Julia Mierzyńska, he worked on the production of ''Wedding in Ojców'' as ballet master. After a year's stay in Paris (1825–1826), he returned to Warsaw and was appointed director of the Warsaw Ballet and head of the ballet school. After his retirement (1843), he organized his own ballet company, with which he toured various cities: Vilno, Minsk, Kalisz, Mogilev, Kyiv, Chișinău, Odesa, Zhytomyr and Kharkiv. In 1847 he established a partnership with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1801 Births
Events January–March *January 1 ** The legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland is completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the abolition of the Parliament of Ireland. ** Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the asteroid and dwarf planet Ceres (dwarf planet), Ceres. *January 3 – Toussaint Louverture triumphantly enters Santo Domingo, the capital of the former Spanish Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, colony of Santo Domingo, which has become a colony of First French Empire, Napoleonic France. *January 31 – John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States. *February 4 – William Pitt the Younger resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. *February 9 – The Treaty of Lunéville ends the War of the Second Coalition between France and Austria. Under the terms of the treaty, all German territories left of the Rhine are officially annexed by France while Austria also has to recognize the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Polish Ballet Dancers
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was Abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
