Joseph Mazilier

{{Short description|French dancer, balletmaster and choreographer}}

{{Infobox dancer

| name = Joseph Mazilier

| image = Joseph Mazilier -circa 1860.JPG

| caption = Joseph Mazilier in {{circa|1860}}

| birth_name = Giulio Mazarini

| birth_date = {{birth date|1801|3|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Marseille

| death_date = {{death date and age|1868|5|19|1801|3|1|df=y}}

| death_place = Paris

| occupation = Dancer, balletmaster and choreographer

| dances = {{plainlist|

• Le Diable amoureux (1840)
• Paquita (1846)
• Le Corsaire (1856)

}}

}}

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Joseph Mazilier (1 March 1801 – 19 May 1868) was a 19th-century French dancer, balletmaster and choreographer. He was born as Giulio Mazarini. He was most noted for his ballets Paquita (1844) and Le Corsaire (1856). He created the role of James in La Sylphide with Marie Taglioni.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary0000crai_a8h2 |publisher=Oxford Reference |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Dance |edition=2nd |first=Debra |last=Craine |first2=Judith |last2=Mackrell |year=2010 |isbn=9780199563449 |doi=10.1093/acref/9780199563449.001.0001 |url-access=registration }} Marie Guy-Stéphan debuted in Aelia et Mysis at the Paris Opéra when she moved in 1853 to Paris.{{cite book |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/guy-stephan-marie-1818-1873 |title=Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages |via=Encyclopedia.com |publisher=Thomson-Gale |first=Anne |last=Commire |author-link=Anne Commire |first2=Deborah |last2=Klezmer |year=2007 |isbn=9780787675851 |volume=1 |pages=1176}}