de Ballet en Chef of the Court Opera Ballet in Berlin from 1852 to 1866. Jules Perrot (1810–1892), Maître de Ballet en Chef (first ballet master) of the Ballet of Her Majesty's Theatre from 1843 to 1848. Maître de Ballet en Chef to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres from 1849 to 1859. Christian Johansson (1817–1903), coaching ballet master/master teacher for the Russian Imperial Ballet from 1880 to 1900, particularly of the male students. Marius Petipa (1818–1910), Maître de Ballet of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres from 1871 to 1903, Deuxieme Maître de Ballet from 1862 to 1871. "The Father of Classical Ballet". Arthur Saint-Léon, born Arthur Michel (1821–1870), a Frenchman who was ballet master of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1850 to 1853, then Maître de Ballet en Chef of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres from 1859 until 1869. Lev Ivanov (1834–1901), Deuxieme Maître de Ballet of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres from 1885 to 1901. Enrico Cecchetti (1850–1928), ballet master for the Ballets Russes 1910. Nicolai Legat (1869–1937), ballet master in Russia. Agrippina Vaganova (1879–1951), ballet master of the Kirov Ballet from 1931 to 1937. She developed the Vaganova method. Michel Fokine (1880–1942), ballet master of the Mariinsky Ballet from 1904 to 1909. Choreographer of the Ballets Russes in Paris from 1909 to 1923. Ballet master of the Royal Danish Ballet in 1925. George Balanchine (1904–1983), ballet master of the Royal Danish Ballet from 1930 to 1931. Ballet master and director of the New York City Ballet, in New York from 1949 to 1982. Frederick Ashton (1904–1988), ballet master, choreographer, and director of England's Royal Ballet from 1963 to 1970. Serge Lifar (1905–1986), ballet master of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1930 to 1944 and 1947–1958. One of the precursors of the neoclassical style. Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin (1907–1970), ballet master; among his students were Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolf Nureyev. María de Ávila (1920-2014), ballet master and the creator of the Ballet de Zaragoza. Roland Petit (1924–2011), ballet master of the Ballet national de Marseille from 1972 to 1998. Maurice Béjart (1927–2007), ballet master of the Théatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels from 1959 to 1987 where he founded the Ballet du XXe Siècle. Then he ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland from 1987 to 2007. Kenneth MacMillan (1929–1992), ballet master of the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1966 to 1969. Ballet master, choreographer, and director of England's Royal