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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.
Aug 5, 2024 · 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.
Léonide Massine. Moscow, 1895–Borken, Germany, 1979. 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.
Léonide Massine. (1896—1979) Russian-born choreographer and ballet dancer. 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.
Mar 17, 1979 · Leonide Massine, one of the great choreographers of ballet in the 20th century, died yesterday in a hospital in Cologne, West Germany, after a brief illness. He was 83 years old.
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.
Leonide Massine, dancer and choreographer was born in Moscow in 1895 the son of a soprano & a musician from the Bolshoi Theatre chorus. He studied acting & dance from the age of 8 at Moscow's Imperial Theatre School.
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