Hansen, Joseph

Hansen, Joseph (1842, Belgium; 1907, Asnieres), choreographer, was an indefatigable worker who seems never to have received credit for his work. He was director of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre from 1879 until 1884, when his most striking accomplishment was a revival of Swan Lake (1880); he became balletmaster at the Alhambra Theatre in London for the 1884-87 interval. In the meantime, he had produced Coppélia for the first time in Brussels in 1871 and in Moscow in 1882. In 1887, Hansen became…