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    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...
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    season's repertory featured a variety of works chiefly choreographed by Michel Fokine, including Le Pavillon d'Armide, the Polovtsian Dances (from Prince...
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    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...
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    The Firebird (category Ballets by Michel Fokine)
    Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine, who collaborated with Alexandre Benois and others on a scenario based...
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    Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Michel Fokine choreographed most of the dances that the company performed. Fokine had originally worked as a choreographer...
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    Daphnis et Chloé (category Ballets by Michel Fokine)
    description above. The dance scenario was adapted by choreographer Michel Fokine from a pastoral romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from...
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    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...
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    Les Sylphides (category Ballets by Michel Fokine)
    in white tights and a black tunic. Its original choreography was by Michel Fokine, with Chopin's music orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. Glazunov had...
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    (1867–1941), actor and comedian John Flanagan (1865–1952), American sculptor Michel Fokine (1880–1942), choreographer Donald Foster (1889–1969), actor Nahan Franko...
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    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...
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    choreographed by Marius Petipa, Yury Grigorovich, Alexei Ratmansky, Michel Fokine, George Balanchine, etc. Marius Petipa Giselle (Giselle, Classical Duet)...
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    Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) (category Ballets by Michel Fokine)
    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...
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    Petrushka (ballet) (category Ballets by Michel Fokine)
    Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine and stage designs and costumes by Alexandre Benois, who assisted Stravinsky...
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    The Dying Swan (category Ballets by Michel Fokine)
    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...
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    Ballet School (Vaganova Ballet Academy). He counted among his students Michel Fokine, a future dancing partner and paramour of his daughter. Karsavina's...
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  • for art and her collaboration with the reformers of ballet including Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky and Sergei Diaghilev. A co-production between the United...
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    Le Dieu bleu (category Ballets by Michel Fokine)
    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...
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    Chopin's music was used in the 1909 ballet Chopiniana, choreographed by Michel Fokine and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. Sergei Diaghilev commissioned...
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    Carnaval (ballet) (category Ballets by Michel Fokine)
    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...
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    an Indian dance form. Another ballet, Sheherazade, choreographed by Michel Fokine in 1910 to music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, is a story involving a...
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    London, Ballets Russes, Sergei Diaghilev production, choreography by Michel Fokine after Petipa–Ivanov, scenes by Golovin and Korovin Original interpreters...
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    Ravel began work with Diaghilev's choreographer, Michel Fokine, and designer, Léon Bakst. Fokine had a reputation for his modern approach to dance,...
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    the legend Bluebeard (1941), by Jacques Offenbach, choreographed by Michel Fokine Blaubarts Traum (Bluebeard's Dream) (1961), a ballet by Harold Saeverud...
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  • Ballo Michel Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose Lev Ivanov's Swan Lake, Act II Michel Fokine's Les Sylphides Michel Fokine's Thamar 1937 11 January — Michel Fokine's...
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  • (Firebird); choreography by Michel Fokine Scheherazade (Zobeide); choreography by Michel Fokine DyinThe Swan; choreography by Michel Fokine Prodigal Son (the Siren);...
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    naturalistic style of choreography, including by Russian choreographer Michel Fokine (1880-1942) and Isadora Duncan (1878-1927), and since then styles have...
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    nicknaming the twenty-fourth the "Crème de Menthe Variation". In 1939, Michel Fokine wrote to Rachmaninoff from Auckland, New Zealand, where he was touring...
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  • Fokin (redirect from Fokine)
    puppeteer and street performer Maksim Fokin (born 1982), Russian footballer Michel Fokine (1880–1942), Russian choreographer and dancer Sergei Fokin (footballer)...
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    recognition sometimes requires listening instead of seeing. In 1910, Michel Fokine choreographed Carnaval for a production by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets...
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  • singers. The premiere took place on 18 May 1909. The choreography was by Michel Fokine and the sets and costumes were designed by Nicholas Roerich. In later...
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