Person    | Male  Born 9/8/1896  Died 1979

Leonide Massine

Categories: Dance

Countries: Russia

Born Moscow. Ballet dancer and choreographer. Principle choreographer of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes.
Appeared in films The Red Shoes (1948) and The Tales of Hoffman (1952). Died in Cologne.

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Leonide Massine

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Picasso

Picasso worked here for 2 months in the studio of the Diaghilev's set-painter...

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Chisenhale Gallery

Chisenhale Gallery

A non-profit contemporary art gallery. It focuses on a programme of commissioned exhibitions, offsite projects and events, film screenings and talks. Our photograph shows a performance at the gallery.

Place, Art, Dance

1 memorial
Trinity Laban

Trinity Laban

Music and dance conservatoire based in Greenwich. It was formed with the amalgamation of the Trinity College of Music and the Laban Dance Centre.

Place, Dance, Music / songs

1 memorial
Sir Frederick Ashton

Sir Frederick Ashton

Ballet dancer and choreographer. Born Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He studied under Léonide Massine and Marie Rambert, and was chief choreographer to Ninette de Valoi...

Person, Dance, Seriously Famous, Ecuador

1 memorial
Baroness Betty Boothroyd, O.M., P.C.

Baroness Betty Boothroyd, O.M., P.C.

Betty Boothroyd was born on 8 October 2023 in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, the daughter of Ben Archibald Boothroyd (1886-1948) and Mary Boothroyd née Butterfield (1901-1982).  In the 1939 England and...

Person, Dance, Politics & Administration, USA

1 memorial
Dame Margot Fonteyn

Dame Margot Fonteyn

Prima ballerina assoluta.  Born Reigate as Margaret Hookham. As a child lived for a time in Shanghai. Her stage name was based on "Fontes" the name of her mother's paternal family, wealthy Brazilia...

Person, Dance, Seriously Famous, China/Hong Kong, Panama

2 memorials