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English dancer and choreographer
Portrait of James Harvey D'Egville 1809
Andre-Jean-Jacques Deshayes
as Achilles and James Harvey d'Egville as Hercules in a scene from the ballet-pantomime
Hercules and Deianeira
from a painting by
Antoine Cardon
1804.
James Harvey D'Egville
(ca. 1770 ? ca. 1836) was an English dancer and choreographer.
[1]
James' father Pierre D'Egville was ballet master at
Drury Lane
and
Sadler's Wells
Theatres. His other son George D'Egville was also a dancer.
[2]
James D'Egville performed at the Paris Opera from 1784 to 1785.
[1]
Back in England, in June 1786, he danced in
The Nosegay
at the
Haymarket Theatre
with
Maria Theresa Kemble
in the presence of the
Royal Family
. On 7 July he appeared in a ballet entitled
Jamie's Return
with Kemble and his brother George. It was well received which inspired an artist named Miller to do a painting depicting the three of them.
[2]
Between 1799 and 1809 he was choreographer at the King's Theatre, now
Her Majesty's Theatre
where he had danced as a child in 1783.
[1]
One of his pupils was Mary Ann Dyke who became tragedienne
Mary Ann Duff
,
[3]
while another was
Arabella Menage
.
[4]
In 1827, the
London Magazine
published an article decrying the fact that D'Egville had won a libel suit against
The Spirit of the Age
newspaper for writing about his alleged association with the assassin of
Princess Lambelle
while he was in France in 1792. It annoyed the magazine immensely that simply writing that someone had said something libellous was grounds to win damages against a periodical. The magazine also had snide things to say about D'Egville's ballets. They wrote of him, "the gentleman who deserves the thanks of all the saints on earth, for having cured the young men of the present day of the sinful taste for ballets."
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See also
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References
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a
b
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Oxford Dictionary of Dance
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a
b
P.H. Highfill et al. (1982)
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors
, Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN
0-8093-0919-X
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Joseph Norton Ireland (1882)
Mrs. Duff
, James R. Osgood and Co., Boston
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Highfill,
Biigraphical Dictionary
, pp. 189?190
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The London Magazine
(July 1827)
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