biography
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Fokine, Michel
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originally Mikhail Mikhaylovich Fokine
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pronunciation:
[fokeen]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1880–1942)
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| biography:
| Dancer and choreographer, born in St Petersburg, NW Russia. He worked with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris from 1909, and in 1923 went to New York City, becoming a US citizen in 1932. He is credited with the creation of modern ballet from the elaborate and ornamental, stylized mode prevalent at the beginning of the 20th-c. He based his choreography on intensely disciplined training, but eliminated rigid tradition, thus enabling a new freedom of movement to come with expressionism. Among the c.70 ballets he created are The Dying Swan (1905) solo for Anna Pavlova, Prince Igor (1909), Les Sylphides (1909), Scheherazade (1910), The Firebird (1910), and Petrouchka (1916). |
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