The dancer Marie Taglioni died at the age of 80. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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Remembered as one of the most important figures in the 19th-century European romantic ballet movement, Taglioni performed at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London; the Paris Opera Ballet; and the Saint Petersburg Imperial Ballet.
Her father was not the only performing artist in the family: her mother, Sophie Karsten, was a famous ballet dancer, and her brother, Paul Taglioni, also had an influential career as a dancer and choreographer. In addition, her grandparents, Christoffer Christian Karsten and Sophie Stebnowska, were both opera singers.