''Les Présages'' is a ballet

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Léonide Massine Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin (russian: Леони́д Фёдорович Мя́син), better known in the West by the French transliteration as Léonide Massine (15 March 1979), was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer. Massine created the wo ...

to music from Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, with sets and costumes by André Masson. The premiere was performed on 13 April 1933 at the

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by the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo. The ballet was Massine's first experiment with a plotless work based on symphonic music.BolshoiMoscow.com: extract from Massine's autobiography, ''My Life in Ballet''
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References

Sources

* Leslie Norton, 2004: ''Léonide Massine and the 20th Century Ballet'', p. 147-154. McFarland

External links

Joffrey Ballet: Les Présages

''Les Présages''
on YouTube (Australian tour 1936-1937) Ballets by Léonide Massine 1933 ballet premieres Ballets to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky {{ballet-stub