La Fille mal gardée is a comic ballet presented in two acts, inspired by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's 1789 painting, La réprimande/Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère. The ballet was originally choreographed by the Ballet Master Jean Dauberval to a pastiche of music based on fifty-five popular French airs. The ballet was premiered on 1 July 1789 at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in Bordeaux, France under the title Le ballet de la paille, ou Il n'est qu'un pas du mal au bien.
Jean Dauberval, a.k.a. Jean D’Auberval,, was a French dancer and ballet master. He is most noted for creating the ballet, La fille mal gardée, one of the most enduring and popular works of the ballet repertoire.
Stanley Holden, born Stanley Herbert Waller, was a British American ballet dancer and choreographer.
David Blair was a British ballet dancer and a star of England's Royal Ballet during the 1950s and 1960s.
Leslie George Edwards was a British ballet dancer and ballet master. He was one of the final links with Ninette de Valois's original pre-war Vic-Wells Ballet. Apart from two years of military service during the Second World War, his entire 60-year career was effectively spent with what became the Royal Ballet organisation, until his final retirement from the stage in 1993.
Jean-Baptiste Brulo was a French ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet master, the son of the French dancers Jean-Baptiste Brulo and Marie-Thérèse Tabary. He danced at Bordeaux (1771–74) then at Montpellier, where his elder brother Mathias was ballet master and his nephew Philippe was theatre director. Brulo arrived at Stockholm in 1803 with his wife Catherine, at the same time as Filippo Taglioni. He became the Royal Swedish Ballet's premier danseur and choreographer, composing ballets for it. He left Sweden in January 1819 for Copenhagen, but the date and place of his death are unknown.
Laura Morera is a Spanish ballerina who is currently a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, London.
Attila-Akyla Silvester was a famous Greek dancer, choreographer and director. He is most famous for the ballet presentations of Orpheus, La Fille Mal Gardée and Zorba the Greek.
Alexander Grant was a New Zealand ballet dancer, teacher, and company director. After moving to London as a young man, he became known as "the Royal Ballet's most remarkable actor-dancer in its golden period from the 1940s to the 1960s."
Alistair Marriott is an English ballet choreographer and principal character artist of The Royal Ballet.
Connor Walsh is an American ballet dancer who currently performs as a principal dancer with the Houston Ballet.
Dorothée Gilbert is a French ballerina who dances with Paris Opera Ballet.
Peter Ludwig Hertel was a German composer of dance music. He is best known as the composer of the ballet La fille mal gardée. He also composed the music for the Faust ballet Satanella oder Metamorphosen, and "Die Abenteuer von Flick und Flock", both choreographed by Paul Taglioni.
Wendy Ellis Somes is a former principal ballerina with the Royal Ballet in London, and is now a worldwide producer of the Sir Frederick Ashton ballets Cinderella and Symphonic Variations.
La fille mal gardée, Frederick Ashton's Royal Ballet production, began in 1959 when British choreographer Frederick Ashton created a new version of La fille mal gardée for the Royal Ballet of London. This production premiered on 28 January 1960, with Nadia Nerina as Lise, David Blair as Colas, Stanley Holden as the Widow Simone, and Alexander Grant as Alain. Since its inception Ashton's staging has become a celebrated classic of the ballet repertory.
Myriam Ould-Braham is a French ballet dancer. After joining the Paris Opera Ballet in 1999, she became a première danseuse (principal) in 2005 and was elevated to the rank of étoile (star) in 2012.
Mathilde Froustey is a French ballet dancer.
Bruce Edward Sansom is a British former ballet dancer, and assistant artistic director and ballet master at San Francisco Ballet.
Maria Shirinkina is a first soloist of the Mariinsky Ballet and a guest principal dancer of the Bayerisches Staatsballett.
Carl Myers is a British former professional ballet dancer now living in Rangiora, New Zealand, and a former Principal of The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet.
