Pitrot, Antoine Bonaventura

Pitrot, Antoine Bonaventura (1725 ?, Marseilles; circa 1794, ?), dancer and choreographer, emerged from obscure origins to travel as a dancer through various European cities until he obtained a contract in 1744 to perform as a soloist at the Opéra. Restless, he moved on to Saxony, Poland, Prussia, Austria, and Italy before he returned to Paris in 1759 to dance at the Comédie-Italienne. A choreographer as well as a performer, he created the choreography for a half-dozen compositions before the…