Choreographer: Michel Fokine

Michel Fokine

Choreographer

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The Imperial Ballet School created yet another exceptional choreographer in Michel Fokine. Born in St. Petersburg in 1880, he is one of the best known choreographers of the 20th century. Fokine graduate from the Imperial Ballet School in 1898 and soon became a soloist at the Marinsky Theater. His career quickly evolved as he became a teacher for the Imperial Ballet School at the young age of 22. Soon after, he choreographed his first ballet in 1905. 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. In 1912, he moved away from the Ballets Russes and began a career in the U.S. and other eatern European countries. Some of Fokine's most famous pieces are: Les Sylphides, Cleopatra, Firebird, and Le Carnival. Michel Fokine died in 1942.


The History of the Russian Ballet, The Vaganova Academy, The Bolshoi Theater, The Marinsky Theater, Anna Pavlova, Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Natalya Dudinskaya, Vaslav Nijinsky, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Marius Petipa, George Balanchine, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The Music of Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky, Image Sources, Works Consulted

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