Code | DS/UK/P132 |
Dates | 1880-1942 |
Person Name | Fokine; Michel (1880-1942) |
Surname | Fokine |
Forenames | Michel |
Activity | Student, St Petersburg Imperial Ballet Academy (?-1898); dancer, Maryinsky Theatre (1898-); teacher, Maryinsky Theatre School (1902); first piece of choreography for the school (1905); choreographer, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (1909-1914); left Russian in 1918 and moved to Scandinavia; began working in the USA (1920); founded the Foking Ballet (1922); between 1924-1925 the company was known as American Ballet or the Fokine Dancers; freelance choreographer: Metropolitan Opera House; Ziegfeld Follies; Paris Opera (1921); His Majesty's Theatre, London (1923); Teatro Colon (1931); Ida Rubinstein's Company (1934-1935); La Scala (1936); chief choreographer, R. Blum's Ballets de Monte Carlo (1936-1938); choreographer, Ballet Theatre (1941-1942). |
Gender | Male |
Other Forms Of Name | Mikhail Fokine |
Address | taggedBALLET |
Source | Source: Craine, D. and Mackrell, J. Oxford Dictionary of Dance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. |
RefNo | Title | Date |
XZG/518 | Deutsches Tanzarchiv Koln \ 11 June 1997 | 11 June 1997 |
XZB/186 | Michel Fokine and His Ballets |
XZJ/798/3 | South Bank Show, The \ Fighting For Fokine | 7 December 1997 |
XZB/2594 | Michel Fokine and His Ballets |
XZM/1363 | Fokine, Michel \ Oversize | |
XZB/185 | Michel Fokine and His Ballets |
UNIS/B/2601 | "Dancing Valkyrie" Tracing Images of Death & Femininity In Dance |
UNIS/B/2608 | Three Oranges: Decision, Grace and Authority; Meyerhold's Biomechanics in Relation to Contemporary Dance Culture |
XZA/12 | Vivien Tandy (Harbord) \ Interviewed by Monica Hetherington | 16 December 1985 |
HB/E/34/1 | Barbara Vernon and John Gregory \ 1937-1959 \ Oversize | 1937-1959 |
XZB/731 | Memoirs of a ballet master |
XZA/1 | Kaleidoscope \ Bosendorfer Waltzes | n.d. |
XZM/376 | Fokine, Michel | |
DH/B/2334 | Michel Fokine |
XZG/172 | Royal Ballet \ Royal Opera House, London, UK \ 30 March 1995-11 May 1995 | 30 March 1995-11 May 1995 |
XZG/213 | Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet \ Sadler's Wells Theatre, London \ 13-31 December 1988 | 13-31 December 1988 |
XZG/184 | Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet \ Sadler's Wells Theatre, London \ 24 September 1985-5 October 1985 | 24 September 1985-5 October 1985 |