biography
pronunciation:
[lifah(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1905–86)
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| biography:
| Dancer and choreographer, born in Kiev, Ukraine. He was a student and friend of Diaghilev, whose Ballets Russes company he joined in 1923. He scored his first triumph as a choreographer in Paris with Créatures de Promethée (1929), and became the guiding genius behind the Paris Opéra (1929–58). He wrote several works on ballet, including a biography of Diaghilev (1940). |
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