Laurent Bocquet

Laurent Bocquet was a French dancer, choreographer and ballet master of the 18th century.

He became ballet master at The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie of Brussels from 1772 to 1777.

[2] He replaced Antoine Pitrot in the course of the season and, on January 27, 1772, he gave his first ballet: Le Triomphe de l'Amour et des Grâces.

He also danced in Le Port de Londres (8 September 1773) and Les Hussards (20 October 1773).

The contract concluded on February 17, 1772 with the directors of the theatre Ignaz Vitzthumb and Louis Compain specified that Bocquet was engaged as ballet master, as well as "to educate and train those we destine to figure and to sing in the opera the roles which will be judged to suit him, and in the comedy of accessories."