Jean-Baptiste Hus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean-Baptiste Hus

French dancer and ballet master

Date of Birth: 01-Jun-1736

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1805

Profession: actor, ballet master, choreographer, dancer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Jean-Baptiste Hus (Paris, June 1736 – Paris, 1805) was a French ballet dancer and ballet master who used the pseudonym Hus-Malo.
He was the son of François Hus and Françoise-Nicole Gravillon, the brother of the future actress Mlle Hus, and a member of the large Hus family, an 18th-century dynasty of dancers and actors.
He was a student of Louis Dupré, Gaetan Vestris and Jean-Georges Noverre.
He married the ballet dancer Elisabeth Bayard, also known as Mademoiselle Bibi, and adopted her son Pierre-Louis Stapleton as his own, who he helped build a career as a dancer. Jean-Baptise Hus worked as a ballet master at La Monnaie starting from 1759.