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Serge Lifar’s path to stardom is a true Cinderella story. After fleeing his native, war-torn Ukraine at the age of 17 to join Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes as a simple dancer, by the age of 25 he was already a choreographer and ballet master at the Paris Opéra.
André Levinson, Serge Lifar: Destin d’un danseur, (Ed Grasset) 1934; Gropius et Servane, A la rencontre de Serge Lifar, (Ed. La Sixaine) 1947; Rostislav Hofmann, Serge Lifar et son ballet, (Ed. Journal Musical Français) 1953; Jean Laurent & Julie Sazanova, Serge Lifar, rénovateur du ballet français, (Ed. Buchet-Chastel) 1960
The last of the prestigious dancers trained by Diaghilev, it was almost by accident that Serge Lifar, son of a Russian civil servant, born in kyiv on April 2...
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Lifar was born in Kiev and trained there by Bronislava Nijinska. He was accepted into the Ballets Russes in 1923, even though Nijinska thought he was not yet ready. Serge Lifar's career was delayed a year because he did not accept Serge Diaghilev's invitation to breakfast.
Principaux interprètes : Micheline Bardin, Yvette Chauviré, Lycette Darsonval, Paulette Dynalix, Roger Fenonjois, Marianne Ivanoff, Serge Lifar, Roger Ritz, Solange Schwarz et le Corps de ballet. Dernière représentation par le Ballet de l’Opéra, Palais Garnier 14. 2. 2009 / par le Ballet de l’Opéra de Bordeaux, 2. 11. 2014
ballet projects, which Lifar was later to stage at the Opéra.12 Levinson's Serge Lifar: Destin d! un danseur was published a year after the death of its author in a de luxe edition. The frontispiece by Picasso (depicting Lifar at the barre with one of the Hoyer brothers, who, like him, had studied with Nijinska in Kiev),
Lifar was able to visit Kyiv, the city of his birth in 1961. In the summer of 1994 the Serge Lifar International Ballet Competition was established in Ukraine in his honor and the first competition took place at the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv. Marko Robert Stech [This article was written in 2021.]
