Friedrich Albert Zorn

Friedrich Albert Zorn (3 April 1816, Kempten – 1 January 1895, Odesa)[2] was a German dancer, choreographer and dance theorist.

[3] From 1839 he lived in Odesa, where in 1840 he began teaching dancing, gymnastics, and swimming at the Richelieu Gymnasium.

[3] In 1887, in Leipzig, he published the Grammatik der Tanzkunst, in which he described a system of dance notation inspired by Arthur Saint-Léon.

Based on many years of research and discussions with Paul Taglioni and Saint-Léon, Zorn's theories were taken up by several German students, and his work was translated into English in 1905.

[1][3] Zorn describes, in particular, Auguste Vestris's gavotte, as well as the La Cachucha, which was danced by Fanny Elssler and Jean Coralli in the ballet Le Diable boiteux in 1836.