''Les Présages'' is a

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Léonide Massine Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin (), 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 world's first symphonic ballet, ''Les Présages'', and ...

to music from

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's Symphony No. 5, with sets and costumes by

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. The premiere was performed on 13 April 1933 at the Opéra de Monte Carlo 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

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