Fokine

[ foh-keen ]

noun

1. Mi·chel Mi·khay·lo·vich [mi-, shel, mi-, hahy, -l, uh, -vich], 1880–1942, Russian choreographer and ballet dancer, in the U.S. after 1925.

Fokine

/ fɔkin; ˈfɔkin /

noun

1. FokineMichel18801942MUSRussianDANCE: choreographer Michel (miʃɛl). 1880–1942, US choreographer, born in Russia, regarded as the creator of modern ballet. He worked with Diaghilev as director of the Ballet Russe (1909–15), producing works such as Les Sylphides and Petrushka

Example Sentences

A diminutive man, he was the prankster Puck in “The Dream,” Frederick Ashton’s one-act ballet drawn from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”; the puppet Petrushka in Michel Fokine’s ballet of the same name, set to music by Igor Stravinsky; and the Blue Bird in “The Sleeping Beauty,” with music by Tchaikovsky.

From New York Times

Rachel was a classically trained ballet dancer who studied with the legendary Irine Fokine and at American Ballet Theater.

From Salon

Inspired by the original 1910 Ballets Russes production choreographed by Michel Fokine and based on a Russian folk tale, the Dance Theater of Harlem version transposed the story to a tropical setting.

From New York Times

Other references are stitched in, like material from Rainer’s 1966 classic, “Trio A,” lucidly danced by Brittany Bailey, and Michel Fokine’s 1905 “The Dying Swan,” channeled with quiet drama by David Thomson and Brittany Engel-Adams.

From New York Times

Dorothée Gilbert was the swan of yore expected and needed for Fokine’s “La Mort du Cygne.”

From Los Angeles Times