Bias, Fanny (1789–1825)

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Bias, Fanny (1789–1825)

French ballet dancer. Name variations: Fanny la Désossée or la Desossee. Born 1789 in Paris, France; died Sept 6, 1825, in Paris.

Premiere danseuse at the Paris Opéra, trained and performed there throughout most of professional career; danced in Milon's Clari (1820), and in revivals of Jean Aumer's Les Pages du Duc de Vendôme and François Décombe Albert's Cendrillon (Cinderella); performed under ballet master André Jean-Jacques Deshayes at King's Theatre in London (1821).

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