Jean-Baptiste Blache

Jean-Baptiste Blache de Beaufort (17 May 1765, Berlin – 24 January 1834, Toulouse) was a German ballet dancer and ballet master active in France.

A student of Deshayes, he learned the violon and cello and had what was in essence a provincial career, mainly at Bordeaux, where he succeeded Jean Dauberval. He worked briefly at the Opéra de Paris, putting on The Barber of Seville (1806) and Les Fêtes de Vulcain (1820) there. Among his best known and most popular ballets are Les Meuniers (1787, admired by Arthur Saint-Léon), L'Amour et la Folie, La Chaste Suzanne, La Fille soldat and Almaviva et Rosine (1806).