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Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin (Russian: Леони́д Фёдорович Мя́син), better known in the West by the French transliteration as Léonide Massine (9 August [O.S. 28 July] 1896 – 15 March 1979), was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer.
Léonide Massine (born July 28 [August 9, New Style], 1896, Moscow—died March 15, 1979, Cologne, West Germany) was a Russian dancer and innovative choreographer of more than 50 ballets, one of the most important figures in 20th-century dance.
Quick Reference. 1896–1979) Russian dancer and choreographer. He became a naturalized French citizen in 1944. The son of a horn player and a singer in the chorus at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Massine attended the theatre's school, where he studied ballet.
The dancer and choreographer Léonide Massine was one of the most prominent members of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company in the 1920s and subsequently of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, beginning in 1930.
Leonide Massine. Born in Moscow in 1895, Léonide Massine received his ballet training at the renowned Imperial Theatre School. While he performed in character roles in ballets at the Bolshoi Theatre, he simultaneously was developing a passion for acting and appeared in plays at the Maly Theatre.
Léonide Massine [1895-1979], a major creative force borne out of Serge Diaghilev's "Ballets Russes", was undisputably Europe's leading dancer and choreographer of the 1920's and 1930's. Massine choreographed over one hundred ballets, among them works that are landmarks in twentieth century dance.
Russian dancer and choreographer Léonide Massine was one of the most important figures in 20th-century dance. He created more than 50 ballets, which usually incorporated both folk dance and the demi-caractère dance, a style that uses classical technique to perform character dance.
Léonide Massine’s first essay in choreography for Diaghilev was Lithurgie, a dramatization of the Russian Orthodox eucharist liturgy. After Stravinsky declined to provide the music, holding that the idea was irreverent, Massine determined to accompany the dancers with only the sound of the dancers’ stamping feet and clapping hands ...
This paper will examine Léonide Massine’s choreography for Le Sacre du printemps, with an introduction to his movement vocabulary in his theory of composition and a discussion of the Massine-Stravinsky collaboration.
Born in Moscow in 1895, Leonide Massine received his ballet training at the renowned Imperial Theatre School. While he performed in character roles in ballets at the Bolshoi Theatre, he simultaneously was developing a passion for acting and appeared in plays at the Maly Theatre.
