Nicolas Legat

choreographer ballet dancer ballet master

December 30, 1869 (age 67)

Moscow, Russia

He is considered to be the main successor to Pavel Gerdt. Legat later served as a balletmaster in Russia, teaching and passing on the legacy of the repertoire of that company, namely the work of the choreographer/balletmaster, Marius Petipa. Legat"s wife, Nadine Nicolaeva, was Prima Ballerina of the Imperial and State theatres of Moscow and Saint St. Petersburg. She choreographed dances based on the Movements Exercises of Gurdjieff and later founded the Legat School of Ballet in Kent. One of her students was Anneliese von Oettingen. She choreographed dances based on the so-called Movements Exercises of G. I Gurdjieff. In 1938, Ouspensky and his followers acquired Colet House in London, from Natine Legat, where they established the Historico-Psychological Society.

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Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.

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He is considered to be the main successor to Pavel Gerdt. Legat later served as a balletmaster in Russia, teaching and passing on the legacy of the repertoire of that company, namely the work of the choreographer/balletmaster, Marius Petipa. Legat"s wife, Nadine Nicolaeva, was Prima Ballerina of the Imperial and State theatres of Moscow and Saint St. Petersburg.

She choreographed dances based on the Movements Exercises of Gurdjieff and later founded the Legat School of Ballet in Kent.

One of her students was Anneliese von Oettingen. She choreographed dances based on the so-called Movements Exercises of G. I Gurdjieff.

In 1938, Ouspensky and his followers acquired Colet House in London, from Natine Legat, where they established the Historico-Psychological Society.

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