Leonide massine choreographer cunningham

This famed dancer and choreographer was born in Moscow, and danced with the Ballets Russes while also beginning to choreograph work..

It was in close collaborations with these artists that Cunningham threw conventional notions of dance out the window and forged a revolutionary vocabulary where.

Léonide Massine (–) holds an uncontested place in dance history as one of the leading choreographers of the twentieth century, and yet his impact on.

This famed dancer and choreographer was born in Moscow, and danced with the Ballets Russes while also beginning to choreograph work.

Merce Cunningham was an American modern dancer and choreographer who developed new forms of abstract dance movement.

In Edwin Denby credits Massine with being the master choreographer of the day, brilliantly inventive, able to create the equivalent of.

Diaghilev’s five great choreographers

We celebrate the exquisite legacy of the Ballets Russes, a phenomenal ballet troupe that debuted in Paris one hundred years ago.

Theodore Kosloff, my subject in the Los Angeles Times and on arts•meme, was a first-generation member of Ballets Russes.

Kosloff’s story piqued my interest (a polite way of saying “I’m obsessed!”) to attend the “Spirit of Diaghilev” conference at Boston University. The three-day centenary event focused on the famed Russian-born impresario who made it all happen.

The aesthetic revolution that Serge Diaghilev cooked in Paris in the early twentieth century was a magnet for Imperial Ballet-trained dancers escaping the chaos of pre-revolutionary Russia.

Residing in transient hotels in Paris and the south of France, this floating crew of creatives worked under the most tenuous and insecure of conditions. And yet, their results not only endure, but inspire awe.

When Diaghilev