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Michael Fokine [a] (23 April [ O.S. 11 April] 1880 – 22 August 1942) was a Russian choreographer and dancer . Career. Early years. Fokine costumed for the role of Lucien d'Hervilly, in Marius Petipa's 1905 production of the ballet Paquita. Fokine as the spectre in a 1914 production of the Ballets Russes ' Le Spectre de la rose.
Michel Fokine was a dancer and choreographer who profoundly influenced the 20th-century classical ballet repertoire. In 1905 he composed the solo The Dying Swan for the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. As chief choreographer for the impresario Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes from 1909 to 1914, he.
Michel Fokine, orig. Mikhail Mikhaylovich Fokine, (born April 23, 1880, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Aug. 22, 1942, New York, N.Y., U.S.), Russian-born U.S. dancer and choreographer. He trained at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg and debuted at the Mariinsky Theatre at age 18.
Russian ballet dancer and choreographer who, under the patronage of Sergei Diaghilev, helped to revolutionize the ballet. Fokine studied at the Imperial Ballet School in St Petersburg and made his debut as a dancer with the Russian Imperial Ballet on his eighteenth birthday.
Jun 27, 2018 · Sometimes known as the father of twentieth-century ballet, Russian choreographer Michel Fokine (1880–1942) revived the art of dance, bringing new expressiveness, dramatic impact, and unity to an art form dominated by entrenched classical ideas.
On January 11, 1940, the curtain of New York’s Center Theatre went up on Michel Fokine’s Les Sylphides, the first work presented by a new company known as Ballet Theatre.
Michel Fokine, one of the great cultural figures of the twentieth century, radical choreographer of the Ballet Russes, revolutionized the art of dance, and is considered the “father of modern ballet”.
