The Picasso Ballets: Pulcinella, Parade, Mercure, Tricorne
The Symphonic Ballets:Les Présages, Choreartium, Symphonie Fantastique, The Seventh Symphony
Humorous Ballets: Gaîté Parisienne, La Boutique Fantasque, Le Beau Danube
Character Ballet:The Rite of Spring
Sacred Mystery Ballet: Laudis Evangelii
One-Act Ballet: Chant du Rossignol (Matisse/Anderson)
The Symphonic Ballets:Les Présages, Choreartium, Symphonie Fantastique, The Seventh Symphony
Humorous Ballets: Gaîté Parisienne, La Boutique Fantasque, Le Beau Danube
Character Ballet:The Rite of Spring
Sacred Mystery Ballet: Laudis Evangelii
One-Act Ballet: Chant du Rossignol (Matisse/Anderson)
Massine returns to Moscow!
On 14 April 2005, Les Présages, Gaîté Parisienne, and Tricorne
entered the repertoire of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.
On 14 April 2005, Les Présages, Gaîté Parisienne, and Tricorne
entered the repertoire of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.
LEONIDE MASSINE
Léonide Massine was one of the most talented choreographers of all time. While
he is most well-known for his story ballets, his symphonic ballets brought forth the
neo-classical style a decade before Balanchine. In his early years, he was the star
of the Ballets Russes which often toured the U.S. In the Boston Sunday Herald
dated January 28, 1916, the critic proclaimed that "To Léonide Massine, one of the
younger men of the troupe, will fall most of the parts that had been allotted to
Nijinsky. Massine is young, slender, graceful, and skilled. All the tricks and feats
of his art seem very simple when done by him, for his ease is such that one fails to
see any difficulty in anything he does." Massine also choreographed 17 ballets for
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. His Rite of Spring was restaged in 1930 with
Martha Graham in the lead role. He created the choreography for nine films
including the immortal Red Shoes with Moira Shearer, Tales of Hoffmann,
Neapolitan Carousel with Sophia Loren, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
with Gina Lollobrigida and Anthony Quinn.
He developed a system of dance notation and wrote two books: My Life in Ballet and
Massine on Choreography. In November 2002, he was posthumously inducted into
the National Museum of Dance's Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame. The Annual
Premio Positano, created in 1969, was renamed the Positano Premia La Danza
Léonide Massine in 1979 and was combined with the Prix Benois in 2015 to
become the Prix Benois-Massine Moscow-Positano.
he is most well-known for his story ballets, his symphonic ballets brought forth the
neo-classical style a decade before Balanchine. In his early years, he was the star
of the Ballets Russes which often toured the U.S. In the Boston Sunday Herald
dated January 28, 1916, the critic proclaimed that "To Léonide Massine, one of the
younger men of the troupe, will fall most of the parts that had been allotted to
Nijinsky. Massine is young, slender, graceful, and skilled. All the tricks and feats
of his art seem very simple when done by him, for his ease is such that one fails to
see any difficulty in anything he does." Massine also choreographed 17 ballets for
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. His Rite of Spring was restaged in 1930 with
Martha Graham in the lead role. He created the choreography for nine films
including the immortal Red Shoes with Moira Shearer, Tales of Hoffmann,
Neapolitan Carousel with Sophia Loren, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
with Gina Lollobrigida and Anthony Quinn.
He developed a system of dance notation and wrote two books: My Life in Ballet and
Massine on Choreography. In November 2002, he was posthumously inducted into
the National Museum of Dance's Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame. The Annual
Premio Positano, created in 1969, was renamed the Positano Premia La Danza
Léonide Massine in 1979 and was combined with the Prix Benois in 2015 to
become the Prix Benois-Massine Moscow-Positano.
| Massine and Picasso return to Pompeii for the centenary of their first visit. Parade and Pulcinella 27 July 2017 Teatro Grande degli Scavi di Pompei |
LEONIDE MASSINE'S BALLETS