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	Michel Fokine
		Mikhail Mikhailovich Fokine was born on April 25, 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia, the seventeenth of eighteen children, five of whom grew to adulthood.
		Michel thought the time period and character of the nation represented should be researched and reflected in the dance and that the troupe of dancers should be used for expression and not just ornamentation.
		Michel Fokine was a pioneer the United States was unprepared for.
	www.yonkershistory.org /fokine.html (1320 words)

	Michel Fokine: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michel Fokine or Mikhail Mikhailovich Fokin (Михаил Михайлович Фокин) (April 23 1880 (OS: April 11) – August 22 1942) was a Russia (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) n choreographer (Someone who creates new dances) and dancer (A performer who dances).
		In 1909 Sergei Diaghilev (Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)) invited Fokine to become the choreographer of his Ballets Russes (additional info and facts about Ballets Russes) in Paris (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce).
		However, Fokine broke off the collaboration in 1912, jealous of Diaghilev's close association with Vaslav Nijinsky (Russian dancer considered by many to be the greatest dancer of the 20th century (1890-1950)).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/michel_fokine.htm (323 words)

	DanceWorks SideSteps - People: Mikhail Fokine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born Mikhail Mikhaylovich Fokine in St. Petersburg on April 26, 1880, Fokine studied at the Imperial Ballet School and in 1898 entered the Imperial Ballet at the Maryinsky Theater with the rank of soloist.
		Fokine's early works included Chopiniana (1903; revised as Les Sylphides, 1909); The Dying Swan (1905), a solo dance for the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova; and Le Pavillon d'Armide (1907).
		The Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky wrote the music for Fokine's ballets The Firebird (1910) and Petrushka (1911); the score for his Daphnis and Chloé (1912) was by the French composer Maurice Ravel.
	www.danceworksonline.co.uk /sidesteps/people/fokine.htm (430 words)

	The National Ballet of Canada \| A Note on Les Sylphides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Originally created by Michel Fokine (1880-1942) in 1907, the ballet was presented by the Imperial Russian Ballet at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg under the title Chopiniana.
		Fokine was first inspired to create this ballet when he found a suite of music by Frédéric Chopin entitled Chopiniana that had been orchestrated by Alexandre Glazunov in 1894.
		Fokine recalls: “This was a record for me. I have never changed anything in this ballet and, after thirty years, I still remember every one of the slightest movements in each position.
	www.national.ballet.ca /Performances/Seasons/2005winter/sylphideNote.php (951 words)

	Michel Fokine
		However, out of the hundreds of applications, Michel was granted a secret audition because his father frequently said, “I do not want my Mimotchka to be a “hoofer.” However, once his father learned Michel had achieved the number one ranking, he agreed to let his son continue with ballet.
		Michel’s philosophy “Five Principles” revolutionized ballet and were applied to his creations in the early 1900’s.
		As a memorial to Michel Fokine, one of his eighty-one ballets, Les Sylphides, was performed simultaneously by seventeen ballet companies around the world.
	learn.sdstate.edu /melissa_mork/techfokine.htm (479 words)

	ARDANI: Fokine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michel Fokine is best known for his ballets Les Sylphides, Firebird, and Petrouchka, and ranks as one of the most important and influential choreographers of the 20th century.
		Fokine studied at the Imperial Ballet School and became a notable soloist in the Maryinsky Ballet (Kirov Ballet).
		Fokine worked with most of the great companies in the first half of the 20th century.
	www.ardani.com /Fokine.html (189 words)

	Michel Fokine -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Fokine was born of a prosperous middle-class family and entered the Imperial Ballet School at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1889, where he distinguished himself for the breadth of his interests and studies.
		Fokine was talented not only as a dancer but also as a student of music and painting.
		Fokine's enthusiasm for antiquity owed nothing in origin to the “free dance” ideas of the American dancer Isadora Duncan, although her appearance in Russia in 1905 greatly consolidated his own views.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9034740 (1404 words)

	Australia Dancing - Fokine, Michel (1880 - 1942)
		Fokine was an advocate of natural and expressive choreography, believing that the whole body should express meaning and emotion through the integration of mime, gesture and dance movement.
		Fokine's progressive ideas brought him into Serge Diaghilev's circle of artists, writers and musicians and he was invited to become chief choreographer of Diaghilev's Ballet Russe in 1909.
		Fokine ended his collaboration with Diaghilev in 1914 and worked as a freelance choreographer and performer in Europe and the United States for many years, eventually settling in New York.
	www.australiadancing.org /subjects/5021.html (646 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Michel Fokine
		Fokine, Michel (1880-1942), Russian dancer and choreographer, whose work revitalized traditional classical ballet and inaugurated a brilliant new...
		Michel, Hartmut, born in 1948, German chemist, co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry, with Johann Deisenhofer and Robert Huber, for their...
		Michel, Clémence Louise (1830-1905), French revolutionary, who combined humanitarian ideals with a passionate zeal for revolutionary reform.
	encarta.msn.com /Michel_Fokine.html (121 words)

	Michel Fokine -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		When his ambitious scenario for a ballet on the story of Daphnis and Chloe was rejected, Sergey Diaghilev in 1909 engaged Fokine at the Ballets Russes in Paris, where he choreographed works such as The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and Daphnis and Chloe (1912).
		The Russian-born American ballet dancer and choreographer Michel Fokine was one of the most innovative forces in early 20th-century ballet.
		Fokine's liberation and reformation of ballet had its greatest impact in the United States, where his classic works...
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9364626 (756 words)

	Fokine, Michel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He accompanied Sergei Diaghilev to Paris in 1909 and was choreographer for his company until 1914.
		Fokine, considered the founder of modern ballet, based his choreography on the old system of training but eliminated rigid traditions, thus paving the way for the new freedom to come with expressionism.
		Among the approximately 70 ballets created by Fokine are Les Sylphides (1909), Prince Igor (1909), The Firebird (1910), Scheherazade (1910), The Spectre of the Rose (1916), and Petrouchka (1916).
	www.bartleby.com /65/fo/Fokine-M.html (188 words)

	Choreographer: Michel Fokine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fokine graduate from the Imperial Ballet School in 1898 and soon became a soloist at the Marinsky Theater.
		Michel Fokine was the master-mind behind Anna Pavlova's most famous performance, The Dying Swan, which he single-handedly created at the end of the first decade of the 1900s.
		Fokine became the chief choreographer for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes while he continued to dance in Russia.
	it.stlawu.edu /~rkreuzer/pmcmanus/fokine.html (200 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Jazy Michel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jazy, Michel (1936- ), French middle-distance runner and the most celebrated French athlete of the 1960s.
		Michel, Hartmut (1948- ), German chemist, co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, with Johann Deisenhofer and Robert Huber, for their work...
		Fokine, Michel (1880-1942), Russian dancer and choreographer whose work revitalized traditional classical ballet and inaugurated a brilliant new era...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Jazy_Michel.html (105 words)

	New Statesman - The Back Half - Fokine marvellous
		The Russian choreographer Michel Fokine revolutionised the art of dancing, and then he was eclipsed by Nijinsky.
		Michel Fokine (although Russian, he preferred the French spelling of his first name) was trained as a dancer in the strict rules that governed St Petersburg's Imperial Ballet at the end of the 19th century.
		Fokine's story, once he allied himself to Diaghilev's troupe in 1909, is, however, both glorious and sad.
	www.newstatesman.com /200009180038.htm (1729 words)

	The Firebird - Ballet Academic Studio
		The choreography was entrusted to Michel Fokine (1880 - 1942), of Russian origin, who was also the author of the libretto, drawn from a Russian fable.
		Fokine had begun its career working in a renewed classical style (Les Silfides, the Death of the Swan).
		Fokine refused the formal symmetry of the classical ballet, because he found it detrimental to drama; he crafts less rigid and artificial groups, transforming them from artifice and ornament into a powerful dramatic force.
	www.danceit.org /firebird.html (633 words)

	The Film, Return of the Firebird, Directed by Andris Liepa, Staged by Isabelle Fokine and Andris Liepa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Andris Liepa, director; Michel Fokine, choreographer; staged by Isabelle Fokine and Andris Liepa.
		But this project had the cooperation of the Michel Fokine Estate Archives and the guidance of Isabelle Fokine, the choreographer's granddaughter and an authority on his works.
		Having just performed the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, version of the Fokine before the film shooting, she had had the advantage of coaching from those who had kept the choreographer's work alive in England.
	www.ananiashvili.com /asweseeit/awsi_retfirebird.htm (1429 words)

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		It is the paradoxical effect of this influence that has facilitated the endless debate among dance scholars as to the nature of the influence of the older modern dance dancer on the younger impressionable ballet choreographer.
		After the Russian Revolution both Michel Fokine and the young George Balanchine left their country to other pastures in America and in Europe.
		It was in America that Balanchine effected a neo-classicist counter-revolution against the neo-romanticism of Michel Fokine.
	www.pitzer.edu /new_african_movement/general/essays/sport2.htm (1503 words)

	Fokine, Michel on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rediscovering Michel Fokine: by challenging Russian tradition, this modernist choreographer wrestled ballet into the twentieth century.(Biography)
		Fokine favorites on tour.(Kirov Ballet tours United States performing works by choreographer Michel Fokine)
		Fokine family Nutcrackers: a trio of productions shows holiday favorite's Russian roots.(Irine Fokine)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/Fokine-M1.asp (396 words)

	Dancer History Archives by StreetSwing.com - Vera Fokina - Main Page
		Vera was a Russian Dancer and was the widow of the famous Michel Fokine (b.1880-1942).
		Vera married Michel Fokine in 1905 and became one of his most faithful disciples.
		Danced for awhile in the Maryinsky ballet theater until 1918, when she resigned and moved to New York with her husband Michel Fokine in 1919.
	www.streetswing.com /histmai2/d2fokna.htm (96 words)

	Dance Magazine: Rediscovering Michel Fokine: by challenging Russian tradition, this modernist choreographer wrestled ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dance Magazine: Rediscovering Michel Fokine: by challenging Russian tradition, this modernist choreographer wrestled ballet into the twentieth century.(Biography)@ HighBeam Research
		In 1942, when choreographer Michel Fokine died in New York, the dance world mourned, lie was the grand old man of ballet modernism, the first to break with the "old" (nineteenth-century style) ballet and create classics that embodied the new.
		When Ballet Theatre (as American Ballet Theatre was initially called) made its debut in 1940, Fokine headed the roster of choreographers, and Les Sylphides, his oldest extant ballet and the first plotless ballet, opened the company's very first bill.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:109947716&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (232 words)

	ABT - Mindy Aloff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We are also starved for a certain kind of deportment in the human figure—for an alliance of tenderness and self-sufficiency, for privacy and respect, for beauty that emerges fully formed, without a Darwinian dark side.
		Fokine’s poet and sylphs are not characters who evolve or change in any psychological way: they are theatrical conveniences that give a local habitation and a name to abstract processes whose true characters are Space, Time, Mass, Pattern, Texture, and, most important, Musical Response.
		To recognize these elements is not something that most audiences are likely to do without the assistance of a setting and costumes, although the experiment of removing them was famously attempted.
	www.danceviewtimes.com /2004/autumn/09/abt1.htm (635 words)

	Michel Ney, duke d'Elchingen -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		“The bravest of the brave” was the title given to the great French military leader Michel Ney by Napoleon I. Ney was born in Sarrelouis, France, on Jan. 10, 1769, the son of a barrelmaker.
		He was apprenticed to a local lawyer but instead ran away and enlisted in the cavalry at the age of 19.
		Born in Poitiers, Michel Foucault studied in Paris under Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser and later taught at the University of Clermont-Ferrand from 1960 to 1968 and the Collège de France from 1970 to 1984.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9373420 (779 words)

	PeoplePlay UK - Pavlova: The Dying Swan
		It consists almost entirely of pas de bourees, a smooth running step performed entirely en pointe, but Fokine added subtle movements of the arms and upper body which expressed the bird's struggle for life.
		For the rest of her life, Pavlova was identified with the ballet, and people saw it almost as a metaphor for her life.
		Russian-born Fokine developed a new ballet for the 20th century.
	www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /collections/object.php?object_id=999 (243 words)

	MaggioDanza - Ballet Blanc: Les Sylphides/Ballet Pathétique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Indeed, there is something breathtaking about layers and layers of gauze engulfing the ballerina’s legs as she leaps across the stage and the way the fabric billows and floats in the air when she spins.
		The dancers of MaggioDanza embodied this phenomenon in Giorgio Mancini’s adaptation of Michel Fokine’s Les Sylphides.
		Trained by the Imperial Maryinsky Ballet School of Russia, Fokine is known for branching away from rigid and flashy technique and for experimenting with the evocation of feelings through movement alone rather than through plot.
	www.culturevulture.net /Dance2/MaggioBlanc.htm (1151 words)

	Dance Magazine: Fokine favorites on tour.(Kirov Ballet tours United States performing works by choreographer Michel ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dance Magazine: Fokine favorites on tour.(Kirov Ballet tours United States performing works by choreographer Michel Fokine)@ HighBeam Research
		The Kirov Ballet (the company on which Michel Fokine cut his choreographic teeth, then known as the Maryinsky) is making a U.S. tour in October and November with a program of the famous choreographer's early works, all choreographed before he left Russia (see Fall Preview and Calendar, DANCE MAGAZINE, September, page 45).
		Audiences in Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, and three California locations will see Chopiniana (better known in the West as Les Sylphides), The Firebird, and Scheherazade; in Boston, the opening night performance will include Le Spectre de la rose and The Dying...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:109947717&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (229 words)

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