Joseph Hansen (8 March 1842 in Antwerp – 27 July 1907 in Asnières) was a Belgian dancer and choreographer.
[1] He was maître de ballet (ballet master) of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1887 to 1907.
[2] Ballet director at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels from 1865 à 1871, he was its ballet master from 1871 to 1875, putting on the first production of Coppélia on 29 November 1871.
He held the same role at the Opéra de Paris during the 1875–1876 season.
He was in London in 1877–1878, then worked at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow from 1879 to 1882, where in 1880 and 1882 he put on his own version of Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky (1880) and directed Russia's first production of Coppélia (1882).