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Massine

[ mah-seen ]

noun

  1. Lé·o·nide [ley-aw-, need], 1896–1979, U.S. ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Russia.


Massine

/ mɑːˈsiːn /

noun

  1. MassineLéonide18961979MUSRussianDANCE: ballet dancerDANCE: choreographer Léonide (leɔnid). 1896–1979, US ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Russia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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“You could feel Stravinsky and Massine and Benois and Picasso and all those people in the room with us. To perform this music in that place on a bare stage with the ghosts was overwhelming.”

Unfortunately, Massine is even younger and, as scripted, more peripheral.

Raised outside of Paris by a French-German father and a Russian mother, she is the granddaughter of Léonide Massine, the celebrated Ballets Russes choreographer who counted Matisse and Picasso as friends.

In its heyday, it held an important place in dance, as a crucial repository for historical works by choreographers like Léonide Massine and Vaslav Nijinsky.

Serge Diaghilev and the writer Jean Cocteau had brought together two of the great radicals, the painter Pablo Picasso and the composer Erik Satie; they collaborated on it with Diaghilev’s latest choreographer, Léonide Massine.

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