Joseph Hansen (dancer)


Joseph Hansen was a Belgian dancer and choreographer.

Life

Ballet director at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels from 1865 à 1871, he was its ballet master from 1871 to 1875, putting on the first production of Coppélia on 29 November 1871. He held the same role at the Opéra de Paris during the 1875-1876 season. He was in London in 1877-1878, then worked at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow from 1879 to 1882, where in 1880 and 1882 he put on his own version of Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky and directed Russia's first production of Coppélia.

Original choreography