Léonide Massine

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Léonide Massine ( Léon Bakst , 1914)

Leonid Fedorovich Mjasin ( Russian Леонид Фёдорович Мясин * July 27 jul. / 8. August  1895 greg. In Moscow ; †  15. March 1979 in Borken ), better known by the French name transcribed Léonide Massine , was a Russian dancer and choreographer .

Life

Massine was a student of Enrico Cecchetti and Nicholas Legat . In 1914 he danced for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes for the first time , after his first choreography for Ballets Russes in 1915 he was the company's most important choreographer until 1921.

In 1926 he emigrated to America. From 1932 he worked for many years for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo , whose artistic director he became from 1933. In 1932, Massine choreographed the London premiere of Karl Gustav Vollmoeller's The Miracle on April 9, 1932 at the Lyceum Theater . He also danced the part of "minstrel" at the side of Tilly Losch .

Appreciation

  • “As a dancer, he had his greatest successes in the character field, as which he has hardly ever been surpassed by a successor in a role choreographed for himself. As a choreographer, he is one of the most innovative personalities in ballet history. His strengths lay in the field of character comedy, whose artistic means of expression he has enriched with many nuances, and in the field of symphonic ballet, which, although it caused great controversy when it was first published, performed decisive pioneering services for the implementation of concert music on the modern ballet theater. "(Horst Koegler)
  • “In contrast to that of most Russian choreographers of his generation, his handwriting was not determined so much by Petipa [...] as by the style of the Bolshoi ballet from which he emerged and by Fokine , his teacher at the Ballets Russes. His best ballets are character pieces like Der Dreispitz . In addition, the choreography of masses is one of his strengths. "

Choreographies (selection)

  • Soleil de Nuit (1915)
  • Liturgy (? 1915)
  • The Good-Humored Ladies (1917)
  • Parade (1917)
  • Boutique Fantasque (1919)
  • The tricorn (1919)
  • Pulcinella (1920)
  • Salade (1924)
  • Beau Danube (1924)
  • Les Matelots (1925)
  • Zéphire et Flore (1925)
  • Ode (1928)
  • Jeux d'Enfants (1932)
  • The Miracle (1932)
  • Les Présages (1933)
  • Choreartium (1933)
  • Union Pacific (1934)
  • Symphonie Fantastique (1936)
  • Gaîté Parisienne (1938)

Filmography (selection)

author

  • Joan Miró. In: Cahiers d'art. Paris 1934.
  • My life in ballet . Macmillan, London 1968.
  • Massine on choreography. Theory and exercises in composition. Faber, London 1976. ISBN 0-571-09302-7

literature

about Massine:

  • Gordon Anthony: Massine. Camera Studies. London 1939. (Texts: Dingverell Sitwell).
  • Catalog of XXth century paintings, watercolors and drawings from the collection of Léonide Massine. Sotheby and Co., London 1971 (65 pages).
  • Janet Sinclair, Massine, Léonide. In: Martha Bremser (ed.): International Dictionary of Ballet , St. James Press, Detroit 1993, vol. 2, pp. 918-22.
  • Vicente García-Márquez: Massine: A Biography . Knopf, New York 1995, ISBN 0-394-51003-8 .
  • Monika Woitas: Leonide Massine. Choreographer between tradition and avant-garde . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-484-66018-X .
  • Stadtmuseum Borken (ed.): Léonide Massine. Dancer and choreographer, citizen of the world ballet . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89534-523-7 (Textred. Norbert Fasse).
  • Leslie Norton: Léonide Massine and the 20th century ballet. McFarland, Jefferson NC 2004.
  • Konrad Landreh: composed movement or choreographed music? About the tension between ballet composer and choreographer using the example of Manuel de Falla and Léonide Massine. In: Stephanie Schroedter (Ed.): Movements between hearing and seeing. Movements of thought about movement arts. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012, pp. 451–454. ISBN 3-8260-4744-3

About Massine in the context of the companies:

  • Jack Anderson: The One and Only: The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo . Dance Horizons, New York 1981.
  • Lynn Garafola: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes . Oxford University Press, New York 1989.
  • Vicente García-Marquez: The Ballets Russes: Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo 1932-1952 . Knopf, New York 1990. ISBN 0-3945-2875-1

Web links

Commons : Léonide Massine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Koegler , Helmut Günther : Massine, Léonide Fedorowitsch , in: Reclams Ballettlexikon , Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart 1984, p. 295f., Here 296.
  2. ↑ Hartmut Regitz, Otto Friedrich Regner, Heinz-Ludwig Schneider: Reclams Ballettführer . 9th throughout and additional Ed., Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart 1985, p. 77.
personal data
SURNAME Massine, Leonide
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mjasin, Leonid Fyodorowitsch; Мясин, Леонид Фёдорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian dancer and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1979
Place of death Bark