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 14
Mikhail Fokine 2

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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 Mikhail Mikhaylovich Fokin
surface form: 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 St. Petersburg
surface form: Saint Petersburg
placeOfDeath New York City
residence New York City
St. Petersburg
surface form: Saint Petersburg
spouse Vera Fokina
workedFor Sergei Diaghilev

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Ballets Russes collaboratedWith Michel Fokine
Imperial Ballet School notableStudent Michel Fokine
this entity surface form: Mikhail Fokine
Imperial Russian Ballet employed Michel Fokine
Ravel Daphnis et Chloé choreographerAtPremiere Michel Fokine
subject surface form: Daphnis et Chloé
Ravel Daphnis et Chloé originalChoreographer Michel Fokine
subject surface form: 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 Michel Fokine
this entity surface form: Mikhail Fokine
Michel Fokine alsoKnownAs Michel Fokine
Firebird associatedWithChoreographyBy Michel Fokine
subject surface form: Firebird (ballet role)