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	Andros On Ballet - Fokine Mikhail
		Mikhail Fokine is probably the best known choreographer of the 20th century.
		Mikhail was born in St. Petersburg April 25, 1880 and studied at the Imperial School, graduated at the age of 18 and entered the Maryinsky Theatre.
		Fokine left the Ballets Russes in 1912 because he was jealous that Diaghilev was favoring Vaslav Nijinsky's choreography.
	www.michaelminn.net /andros/index.php?fokine_mikhail (435 words)

	Michel Fokine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michel Fokine or Mikhail Mikhailovich Fokin (Михаил Михайлович Фокин) (April 23, 1880 (OS: April 11) – August 22, 1942) was a groundbreaking Russian choreographer and dancer.
		In 1909 Sergei Diaghilev invited Fokine to become the choreographer of his Ballets Russes in Paris.
		Fokine died in New York on August 22, 1942.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mikhail_Fokine (270 words)

	Dance Spirit Magazine - Dancing Through History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mikhail Fokine, one of the greatest reformers of 20th-century ballet, was famous for challenging the traditions of classical dance.
		Fokine choreographed and restaged works for such companies as the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, the Paris Opéra Ballet, La Scala, Teatro Colón and the Ziegfeld Follies, and was chief choreographer for Les Ballets de Monte Carlo and Ballet Theatre (precursor to ABT).
		Fokine was a pioneer in the invention of the abstract ballet.
	www.dancespirit.com /backissues/june02/legends.shtml (998 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Mici-Mn) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mikhail Alexeyev was a Russian military commander during The Great War.
		Mikhail Yurevitch Lermentoff was a Russian poet and novelist.
		He was born in 1814 at Moscow, of Scottish descent and died in 1841.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /CAE.HTM (998 words)

	Mikhail Fokine (1880-???) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mikhail Fokine is probably the best known choreographer of the 20th century.
		Mikhail was born in St. Petersburg April 25, 1880 and studied at the Imperial School, graduated at the age of 18 and entered the Maryinsky Theatre.
		Fokine left the Ballets Russes in 1912 because he was jealous that Diaghilev was favoring Vaslav Nijinsky's choreography.
	michaelminn.net /andros/biographies/fokine_mikhail.htm (392 words)

	Academy of Russian Ballet.Elizabeth Shipiatsky, Artistic Director
		Michel Fokine was one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th century.
		Fokine established his reputation while he was Chief Choreographer for Serge Diaghilev's first ballet seasons in the West.
		Fokine worked in Russia until 1918 and was later to settle in the USA where he continued to work as a teacher, dancer and choreographer.
	www.academyofrussianballet.org /chopiniana.htm (837 words)

	Criticaldance.com - Reviews - Kirov Ballet - Fokine
		Fokine's "Scheherazade" is trivial as well -- but there are plenty of other things to feast on during the proceedings.
		But Fokine entertains by going ahead and telling the story right away -- there are pretty dances throughout, mind you, but it has a much more satisfying dramatic unity.
		Then, of course there is the great music in these three Fokine works, the use of which sets these ballets apart from most of the 19th century story ballets (Tchaikovsky's ballets excepted).
	www.criticaldance.com /reviews/2003/kirov-fokine2-20031021.html (1015 words)

	DanceWorks SideSteps - People: Tamara Karsavina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		With Adolf Bolm in Le Pavillon d'Armide, choreographed by Mikhail Fokine.
		Though not one of Fokine's reform ballets, this was the first completely original production by artists who were to be among Diaghilev's collaborates in his first Paris season of Ballets Russes and was included in the opening programme at The Theatre du Chatelet, 18 May 1909, danced by Karsavina, Karalli, Mordkin and Nijinsky.
		With Adolf Bolm in The Firebird, choreographed by Mikhail Fokine
	www.danceworksonline.co.uk /sidesteps/people/karsavina_gallery.htm (100 words)

	B.co What to look for in Michael Fokine
		Richard Glasstone portrayed Fokine as a considerable moderniser, quite as radical in his way as Isadora Duncan, who was born three years earlier.
		The tradition in which Fokine grew up was that of the court ballet in which dancing was not meant to be expressive.
		Fokine wanted ballet technique to train the body; but he insisted that choreographers should use the whole body expressively.
	www.ballet.co.uk /magazines/yr_01/jul01/bmc_fokine_glasstone.htm (969 words)

	DanceWorks SideSteps - People: Mikhail Fokine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		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 new expressive means developed by Mikhail Fokine enabled her to appear in parts that were based on free movement, such as the Tsarevna in The Firebird.
	www.danceworksonline.co.uk /sidesteps/people/fokine.htm (430 words)

	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.
		In 1905 Anna Pavlova, the great Russian ballerina, came to Fokine and asked him to suggest some music for her to dance to in the Hall of Nobles.
		In the 1920’s the Fokines toured many of the large cities in the United States, mainly east of the Mississippi River, beginning with the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
	www.yonkershistory.org /fokine.html (1320 words)

	Fokine, Michel -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		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 (1403 words)

	ShowMag.com
		The choreography of Mikhail Fokine is seldom seen today in the repertoire of the world’s major ballet companies.
		Mikhail Fokine was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on April 25, 1880.
		Fokine firmly believed ballet at that time was too absorbed with technique and athleticism.
	www.showmag.com /dance/dance032.html (998 words)

	Michel Fokine article - Michel Fokine April 23 1880 April 11 August 22 1942 Russian choreographer - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Michel Fokine article - Michel Fokine April 23 1880 April 11 August 22 1942 Russian choreographer - What-Means.com
		Michel Fokine or Mikhail Mikhailovich Fokin (Михаил Михайлович Фокин) (April 23 1880 (OS: April 11) – August 22 1942) was a Russian choreographer and dancer.
		Michel Fokine article - Michel Fokine definition - what means Michel Fokine
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Mikhail_Fokine (277 words)

	Fokine, Michel -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Chase was director, with Oliver Smith, from 1945 to 1980; the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov was artistic director from 1980 to 1989.
		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...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034740 (732 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / dance
		All were choreographed by Mikhail Fokine, and all are coming to Boston when the Kirov Ballet and Orchestra appear at the Wang Theatre this fall.
		With the Fokine program the company celebrates one of its most glorious periods, but also one that saw it losing its stars to the West, under the aegis of Serge Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes.
		Fokine espoused an expressionist style in which dance and mime blended seamlessly and the corps was more than living scenery.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2003/09/14/kirov_to_stage_five_fokine_ballets_in_boston (609 words)

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		Russian ballet was introduced to the West by Sergei Diaghilev, who set out for Paris in 1909 and founded the Ballets Russes (Russian Ballet), at about the same time that Isadora Duncan, a fervent opponent of classical ballet, was touring Europe.
		Associated with Diaghilev were Mikhail Fokine, Enrico Cecchetti, Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, Léonide Massine, Bronislava Nijinska, George Balanchine, and Serge Lifar.
		Diaghilev and Fokine pioneered a new and exciting combination of the perfect technique of imperial Russian dancers and the appealing naturalism favoured by Isadora Duncan.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0003074.html (1153 words)

	Russian Orientalism and the Ballet Russe
		The element vostochnyi—or “Eastern element”—was first apparent in the compositions of Mikhail Glinka and was identified by critic and scholar Vladimir Stasov.
		Mikhail Fokine and Anna Pavlova were the requisite doomed lovers — an all too ubiquitous theme in these oriental ballets.
		Mikhail Fokine, too, used elements of traditional Georgian dance in the choreography, although the impassioned kiss exchanged by the Prince and Queen clearly violated the rule forbidding men and women from touching during dance.
	www.laurelvictoriagray.com /russ_orientalism.htm (2853 words)

	Online Review London -The Kirov Ballet
		Mikhail Fokine's Chopiniana was first devised for students of St Petersburg's Imperial Ballet School, who staged it in the Spring of 1908.
		It thus began life as an exhibition piece; but it has the stamp of genius all over it, and was destined not to be a mere academy showpiece for long.
		Fokine premises his version of the tale on the idea that a harem is a crucible of uncontainable desire.
	www.onlinereviewlondon.com /reviews/Kirov.html (751 words)

	Serge Leonovich Grigoriev (1883-???) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Grigoriev was a friend of Mikhail Fokine, and Fokine recommended him to rehearse the ballets for the 1909 season.
		Even when his good friend Fokine left because of the rift over Nijinsky's choreography, Grigoriev stayed with the company, although his sympathies were with Fokine.
		Before he agreed to return Fokine made many demands: to dance leading roles; that all of Nijinsky's ballets be dropped from the repertoire; and that Grigoriev and his wife, the ballerina Lubov Tchernicheva, be discharged from the company.
	michaelminn.net /andros/biographies/grigoriev_serge.htm (407 words)

	CriticalDance :: View topic - Kirov in the USA, 2003 - Fokine Program
		Fokine’s “Scheherazade” is trivial as well — but there are plenty of other things to feast on during the proceedings.
		The Kirov Ballet's program of classic ballets by Mikhail Fokine at the Orange County Performing Arts Center Tuesday was glorious spectacle, a rainbow melange of artistic layers both obvious and subtle.
		Thursday night’s performance of the Fokine program was — like Tuesday’s performance — anchored by strong performances from the Kirov’s marvelous corps de ballet and the truly phenomenal orchestra (conducted by Mikhail Agrest).
	www.ballet-dance.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=21767&start=30&sid=826763ee10ae981eddb20b86cb6437e4 (3619 words)

	ON-LINE PICASSO PROJECT ARCHIVES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A stream of restless, brilliant talent was channelled through this company - not only Stravinsky, Fokine and Larionov but the dancer/choreographer Nijinsky and his sister Nijinska, the painters Bakst and Benois, the ballerinas Karsavina and Lopokova and a later generation of choreographers including Massine and Balanchine.
		It was he who set up the unknown Stravinsky with the ambitious choreographer Fokine to produce the radical folk ballets of The Firebird (1910) and Petrushka (1911).
		Fokine and Nijinsky were succeeded by Massine (also Diaghilev's lover) who was then partly superseded by Nijinska and Balanchine.
	www.tamu.edu /mocl/picasso/archives/2000/opparch00-257.html (2627 words)

	Fort Worth Weekly Online -- fwweekly.com \| Arts \| The Devil Made Them Do It
		Long missing from the Western dance scene, Paganini was created by Mikhail Fokine for the old Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo in 1939.
		Fokine ended his remarkable career with the newly formed American Ballet Theatre in the 1940s.
		A collaboration between Fokine and yet another Russian émigré, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Paganini had two strikes against it as far as the Soviets were concerned.
	www.fwweekly.com /issues/2001-03-01/art.html (1043 words)

	Dance \| The rose and the scimitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The classical edifice built by Petipa, Ivanov, and the Mariinsky school in St. Petersburg was suffering from decadence and over-familiarity, Fokine thought, and it needed to be scraped down to the essentials of training and dramaturgy.
		On opening night, Uliana Lopatkina made the Dying Swan into melodrama, as she caught her breath, flapped her arms frantically, clutched the air with a crooked wing.
		When one of the components is missing, you see how thoroughly worked-out Fokine’s theories of taste and style were, and how perfectly Diaghilev put together his teams of collaborators for each ballet.
	www.portlandphoenix.com /dance/documents/03333637.asp (1471 words)

	kirov1-felciano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		History tells us about Fokine’s innovations—his insistence on creating through-composed works in which dance, music and décor create a unit larger than its parts and his belief that dance can tell a story without recourse to mimetic gestures or a fixed vocabulary.
		In general Fokine’s storytelling is clear with a stern, yet deeply in love Sha Shahryar (Vladimir Ponomarev), and a brooding Rodinesque—leaning over, chin cupped in hand, staring at the lovers--Zeman (Andrei Yakovlev).
		Fokine built a crescendo into their rising passion that still works.
	www.danceviewtimes.com /dvw/reviews/2003/kirov1.html (1499 words)

	Ballet Ensemble of Texas
		Reflections was no match for The Firebird, a Russian fairy tale about a Firebird with magical powers.
		First created by Mikhail Fokine for Ballets Russes in Paris in 1910, it was a sensation then, with a dynamic score by Igor Stravinsky.
		Sunday's version was that of George Skibine, the late artistic director of Dallas Ballet and former star of Ballets Russes, and was restaged by Thom Clower.
	www.balletensembleoftexas.org (557 words)

	Les Sylphides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fokine deliberately set out to evoke the poetry and artistry of the great ballets of the Romantic era - possibly as a rebuke to his choreographic contemporaries, many of whom were churning out emotionally empty ballets that served mostly as showcases for flashy feats of technique.
		Fokine began the work in 1907, when he choreographed a short piece called 'Moonlight Vision' for Anna Pavlova to perform in a Maryinsky Theater charity performance in St. Petersburg.
		Ballet blanc had fallen out of style by the time Fokine created his work more than 50 years later.
	www.novia.net /%7Ejlw/sylphides/sylphnote.html (465 words)

	KIROV CELEBRATES NIJINSKY: Sanity.com.au - More Movies - More Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mikhail Fokine was Diaghilev's chief chroegrapher and his choreography marked a departure from many of the rigid rules and forms of classical ballet and ushered in a new expressiveness.
		Created by Fokine to the music of Weber's Invitation to the Dance, Le Spectre de la rose is one of the choreographer's most poetic creations.
		Mikhail Fokine revised them for presentation in Diaghilev's first Saison Russes in Paris in 1909, when audiences at the Theatre du Chatelet found them startlingly wild and vigorous.
	www.sanity.com.au /product.asp?intProductID=596347&intArtistID=199023 (437 words)

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