Michael Fokine (23 April [O.S. 11 April] 1880 – 22 August 1942) was a Russian choreographer and dancer. Fokine was born in Saint Petersburg to a prosperous...

creating the role of The Dying Swan, a solo choreographed for her by Michel Fokine. The ballet, created in 1905, is danced to Le cygne from The Carnival...

season's repertory featured a variety of works chiefly choreographed by Michel Fokine, including Le Pavillon d'Armide, the Polovtsian Dances (from Prince...

Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine, who collaborated with Alexandre Benois and others on a scenario based...

Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Michel Fokine choreographed most of the dances that the company performed. Fokine had originally worked as a choreographer...

Ravel began work with Diaghilev's choreographer, Michel Fokine, and designer, Léon Bakst. Fokine had a reputation for his modern approach to dance,...

production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, in a ballet sequence choreographed by Michel Fokine. He was congratulated by the director of the Imperial Ballet and offered...

the role of Papillon in Carnaval, a ballet written and designed by Michel Fokine. She assisted her famous brother Vaslav Nijinsky as he worked up his...

Les Orientales is a choreographic divertissement by Michel Fokine. A production of Ballets Russes, it was premiered on June 25, 1910 at the Theatre National...

Moeller van den Bruck, German historian and author (d. 1925) 1880 – Michel Fokine, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1942) 1882 – Albert Coates, English...

Dying Swan (originally The Swan) is a solo dance choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to Camille Saint-Saëns's Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux as a pièce...

Ballets Russes. The choreography for the ballet was by Michel Fokine and the libretto was from Fokine and Léon Bakst. The Ballets Russes' Scheherazade is...

the legend Bluebeard (1941), by Jacques Offenbach, choreographed by Michel Fokine Blaubarts Traum (Bluebeard's Dream) (1961), a ballet by Harold Saeverud...

naturalistic style of choreography, including by Russian choreographer Michel Fokine (1880-1942) and Isadora Duncan (1878-1927), and since then styles have...

Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine and stage designs and costumes by Alexandre Benois, who assisted Stravinsky...

shocked audiences so much they rioted. After the "golden age" of Petipa, Michel Fokine began his career in St. Petersburg but moved to Paris and worked with...

Le Dieu bleu is a ballet in one act choreographed by Michel Fokine to music by Reynaldo Hahn, set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau and Federico de Madrazo...

description above. The dance scenario was adapted by choreographer Michel Fokine from a pastoral romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from...

Terpsichore, "Apollo" by George Balanchine Zobeida, "Scheherazade" by Michel Fokine Clémence, (Henrietta?), Raymonda "Raymonda" by Marius Petipa edited...

Bessmertnova Vakhtang Chabukiani Natalia Dudinskaya Nikolai Fadeyechev Michel Fokine Yekaterina Geltzer Pavel Gerdt Elizaveta Gerdt Alexander Gorsky Alexander...

mazurka began as a dance for either four or eight couples. Eventually, Michel Fokine created a female solo mazurka dance dominated by flying grandes jetés...

Villa Senar in 1937, Rachmaninoff entered talks with choreographer Michel Fokine about a ballet based on Niccolò Paganini that was to feature his rhapsody...

Toye Young Tregennis first solo role 1934 Les Sylphides choreography Michel Fokine, music by Frédéric Chopin Mazurka 1934 Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky cignet...

Carlo on 19 April 1911, produced by the Ballets Russes ballet company. Michel Fokine was the choreographer and Léon Bakst designed the original Biedermeier...

Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatoly Lyadov and Alexander Tcherepnin. It was choreographed by Michel Fokine to his own libretto, with costumes designed by Léon Bakst, and premiered...

society figures. Vreeland was sent to dancing school as a pupil of Michel Fokine, the only Imperial Ballet master ever to leave Russia, and later of...

Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes; its choreographer that year was Michel Fokine; at nearly sixty minutes, it is the composer's longest work, and two...

resident choreographer was Massine; it also featured the choreography of Michel Fokine, Bronislava Nijinska, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Agnes de...

nicknaming the twenty-fourth the "Crème de Menthe Variation". In 1939, Michel Fokine wrote to Rachmaninoff from Auckland, New Zealand, where he was touring...

for art and her collaboration with the reformers of ballet including Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky and Sergei Diaghilev. A co-production between the United...