Charles Le Picq

Charles Felix Richard Auguste Le Picq (2 March 1745, Strasbourg[1] – 29 October 1806,[2] Saint Petersburg) was an influential French dancer and choreographer.

He was called the "Apollo of the Dance" and performed in many countries, such as Württemberg (1760–1764 and 1770), Austria (1764–1765, 1767–1769 and 1771), Poland (1765–1767 and 1785), Italy (1769–1782), France (1776), Spain (1780), England (1782–1785) and Russia (1786–1803).

In 1786 Charles Le Pic was invited to Russia, to St. Petersburg to head the Imperial ballet.

Thanks to him, Noverre's book Lettres sur la danse [fr] (Letters on the Dance) was published in Russia (in French) in 1803.

The children of Charles Le Picq and Gertrude were: Caroline (the second wife of the Spanish composer Vincente Martín y Soler), Henriette Wilhelmine[6] (wife of a German pharmacist Johann Moritz Bartels) and Marie Gertrude[7] (wife of a French dancer and ballet master Auguste Antoine Poireau), they also had a son Charles.

London King's Theater in the Haymarket, where Charles Le Picq worked from 1782 until 1785
Bolshoi Theatre in Saint Petersburg, where Charles Le Picq worked from 1786 until 1803