This article seeks to correct prevailing narratives of French ballet modernism, which exclude one of its earliest and most significant choreographers, Madame Mariquita. Although long overshadowed by the Diaghilev enterprise and by dancers such as Isadora Duncan, Mariquita's experiments with creating dances that drew on ancient Greek imagery while ballet mistress at the Paris Opéra-Comique in the early 1900s were central to ballet culture in France at a pivotal moment in dance history. This article discusses Mariquita's nascent ballet modernism through her choreography of Greek dances as well as her engagement with early twentieth-century French dance and broader cultural trends.

本文旨在纠正法国芭蕾舞现代主义的流行叙述，其中排除了其最早和最重要的编舞之一马里基塔夫人。尽管长期以来被佳吉列夫企业和伊莎多拉·邓肯等舞者所掩盖，但马里基塔在 1900 年代早期在巴黎歌剧院担任芭蕾舞女主人时尝试创作借鉴古希腊意象的舞蹈，在关键时刻成为法国芭蕾舞文化的核心在舞蹈史上。本文通过她对希腊舞蹈的编排以及她对 20 世纪早期法国舞蹈和更广泛的文化趋势的参与讨论了 Mariquita 新生的芭蕾舞现代主义。