Michel Fokine

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Michel Fokine was a pioneering Russian choreographer and dancer who helped revolutionize early 20th-century ballet with expressive, dramatically unified works.

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Michel Fokine canonical 32
Mikhail Fokine 7
Fokine 1

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instanceOf Russian emigrant
ballet choreographer
ballet dancer
person
alsoKnownAs Michel Fokine
causeOfDeath pneumonia
citizenship Russian Empire
United States of America
collaboratedWith Anna Pavlova
Sergei Diaghilev
Tamara Karsavina
Vaslav Nijinsky
countryOfBirth Russian Empire
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1880-04-23
dateOfDeath 1942-08-22
educatedAt Imperial Ballet School
employer Ballets Russes
Mariinsky Theatre
familyName Fokin
fieldOfWork ballet
fullName Mikhail Mikhaylovich Fokin
gender male
givenName Mikhail
influenced 20th-century ballet
George Balanchine
Serge Lifar
influencedBy Isadora Duncan
Marius Petipa
language English
French
Russian
movement modern ballet
nameInRussian Михаил Михайлович Фокин
notableFor emphasis on expressive, dramatically unified ballets
reforming classical ballet in the early 20th century
notableWork Carnaval
Cleopatra
Firebird
Le Spectre de la rose
Les Sylphides
Petrushka
Scheherazade
The Dying Swan
occupation ballet dancer
ballet master
choreographer
placeOfBirth Saint Petersburg
linked to: St. Petersburg
placeOfDeath New York City
residence New York City
Saint Petersburg
linked to: St. Petersburg
spouse Vera Fokina
workedFor Sergei Diaghilev

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Ballets Russes collaboratedWith Michel Fokine
Imperial Ballet School notableStudent Mikhail Fokine
linked to: Michel Fokine
Imperial Russian Ballet employed Michel Fokine
Daphnis et Chloé choreographerAtPremiere Michel Fokine
subject linked to: Ravel Daphnis et Chloé
Daphnis et Chloé originalChoreographer Michel Fokine
subject linked to: Ravel Daphnis et Chloé
Sergei Diaghilev collaboratedWith Michel Fokine
The Firebird choreographerAtPremiere Michel Fokine
The Firebird librettist Michel Fokine
The Firebird originalPrinceIvanDancer Michel Fokine
Petrushka choreographer Michel Fokine
Tamara Karsavina collaboratedWith Mikhail Fokine
linked to: Michel Fokine
Michel Fokine alsoKnownAs Michel Fokine
Firebird (ballet role) associatedWithChoreographyBy Michel Fokine
subject linked to: Firebird
Imperial Theatres employer Mikhail Fokine
linked to: Michel Fokine
Russian Seasons in Paris significantPerson Mikhail Fokine
linked to: Michel Fokine
Ida Rubinstein notableAssociate Michel Fokine
Le Spectre de la rose choreographer Michel Fokine
Young Girl in Le Spectre de la rose createdBy Michel Fokine
Young Girl in Le Spectre de la rose choreographicCreator Michel Fokine
The Dying Swan choreographer Mikhail Fokine
linked to: Michel Fokine
The Ballerina workChoreographer Michel Fokine
The Moor (Petrushka) workChoreographer Michel Fokine
subject linked to: The Moor
the Ballerina in Petrushka createdBy Michel Fokine
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Fokin alsoKnownAs Mikhail Fokine
linked to: Michel Fokine
Fokin hasTransliteration Fokine
linked to: Michel Fokine
Fokin notableBearer Mikhail Fokin
linked to: Michel Fokine
Mikhail Fokin alsoKnownAs Michel Fokine
subject linked to: Fokin
Les Sylphides choreographer Mikhail Fokine
linked to: Michel Fokine
Vera Fokina notableAssociate Michel Fokine
Vera Fokina influencedBy Michel Fokine
Vera Fokina spouse Michel Fokine
Vera Fokina artisticPartner Michel Fokine
Zobeide in Scheherazade createdBy Michel Fokine