page_title: Les Fêtes Chinoises
hierarchical_section_title: Les Fêtes Chinoises
context_page_description: Les Fêtes Chinoises is an 18th-century ballet by Jean-Georges Noverre. The exact date of the ballet's composition is unknown but it was probably created in 1751 for Marseilles, where Noverre was ballet master. Revivals followed in Lyon and Strasbourg and the ballet was staged in Paris on Monday, 1 July 1754 at the Opéra-Comique, with decors by François Boucher. Les Fêtes Chinoises had little in the way of plot or theme but instead was a series of danced pictures inspired by the Chinoiserie designs of the Rococo that embroidered upon descriptions of China by travellers and explorers. The ballet was Noverre's first great success. The 1755 London production was completely destroyed by anti-French rioters on the eve of the Seven Years' War.
context_section_description: Les Fêtes Chinoises is an 18th-century ballet by Jean-Georges Noverre (1727–1810).  The exact date of the ballet's composition is unknown but it was probably created in 1751 for Marseilles, where Noverre was ballet master.  Revivals followed in Lyon and Strasbourg and the ballet was staged in Paris on Monday, 1 July 1754 at the Opéra-Comique, with decors by François Boucher. Les Fêtes Chinoises had little in the way of plot or theme but instead was a series of danced pictures inspired by the Chinoiserie designs of the Rococo that embroidered upon descriptions of China by travellers and explorers.  The ballet was Noverre's first great success.  The 1755 London production was completely destroyed by anti-French rioters on the eve of the Seven Years' War.
caption: Costume and scene in Chinese Dance (1742) by François Boucher may have inspired Les Fêtes Chinoises.
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