André Levinson
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André Yacovlev Levinson, Андрей (Андрэ) Яковлевич Левинсон; Andrey Yakovl'evich Levinson (November 1, 1887, St. Petersburg - December 3, 1933, Paris) was, after leaving Russia in 1918, a French dance journalist.
At the University of Sankt Peterburg he had been a professor of Romance languages. Regarding ballet, he then championed "pure academic dance". He opposed the reforms advanced by choreographer Michel Fokine and impresario Sergei Diaghilev.[1][2]
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Literary works
- Meister des Ballets, 1923
- La Argentina, 1928
- La danse d'aujourd'hui, 1929
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