Le Picq, Charles

LePicq, Charles (1744, Naples; 1806, St. Petersburg), dancer, whose family name was sometimes written Lepic, studied and danced initially at Strassburg and Stuttgart, where Jean-Georges Noverre had become ballet master in 1760. Inevitably he learned Noverre’s new ballets already designated as “ballets d’action” and provoking heated discussion in the world of the dance. More importantly, he presented them in the various cities of Europe in which he performed with his wife Anna Binetti…