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

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and ballet dancer. Massine created the world's first symphonic ballet, ''Les Présages'', and many others in the same vein. Besides his "symphonic ballets," Massine choreographed many other popular works during his long career, some of which were serious and dramatic, and others lighthearted and romantic. He created some of his most famous roles in his own comic works, among them the Can-Can Dancer in ''

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'' (1919), the Hussar in ''Le Beau Danube'' (1924), and, perhaps best known of all, the Peruvian in ''

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'' (1938). Today his oeuvre is represented by his son Theodor Massine.

Early life and education

Massine was born into a musical family on 9 August 1895 in Moscow, Russia. His mother was a soprano in the Bolshoi Theater Chorus and his father played the French horn in the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra. Leonid was one of five children. He had three brothers, Mikhail, Gregori, and Konstantin – as well as one sister - Raissa. Due to their small age difference, Leonid and Konstantin were very close during childhood. Beginning when Leonid was seven, the Massine family spent most summers at their summer ''

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'' in Zvenigorod-Moskovsky. In 1904, Leonid successfully auditioned for the Moscow Imperial Theater School. At only eight years old, he began his formal dance training. The next year, the director of the Bolshoi Theater, Alexander Gorsky, was looking for a small boy to play the role of Chernomor in the ballet ''Ruslan and Ludmilla.'' Leonid was selected for the role. This performance and rehearsal period ignited his lifelong passion for acting. Leonid was selected for three more professional roles at the Bolshoi and Maly Theaters through the 1908–1909 season. In 1909, Konstantin was killed during a hunting accident. Leonid never seemed to fully recover from the shock and devastation of this personal tragedy. In August 1913, Massine graduated from the Moscow Imperial Theater School and almost immediately joined the Bolshoi Ballet. In December of the same year, Serge Diaghilev came to Moscow in search of a dancer for a new production of ''The Legend of Joseph.'' His lover, Vaslav Nijinsky, had originally been cast in the role, but Diaghilev terminated Nijinsky's contract upon his marriage to Romola de Pulszky. Diaghilev was attracted to Massine's onstage presence and acting, and invited him to audition for the choreographer, Mikhail Fokine. After the audition in St. Petersburg, Massine joined Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes.

Ballets Russes

From 1915 to 1921 Massine was the principal choreographer of

Sergei Diaghilev Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev ( ; rus, Серге́й Па́влович Дя́гилев, , sʲɪˈrɡʲej ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf; 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, pat ...

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. Following the departure of

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, the company's first male star, Massine became the preeminent male star and took over Nijinsky's roles. His first ballet, in 1915, called ''Le Soleil de Nuit'', used Russian folklore elements. The ballet ''

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'' premiered at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, on 18 May 1917. The ballet is based on a libretto by Jean Cocteau. ''Parade'' is about a group of circus performers trying to lure a reluctant audience into the tent before the show begins. The sets and costume designs were by Pablo Picasso, who designed large cubist structures for the dancers to wear. The score was composed by Erik Satie, who used sounds from an airplane's engine, pistol shots, and a ship's siren to accompany the music. ''Le Tricorn,'' better known as ''The Three Cornered Hat,'' premiered at the Alhambra Theater in London, on 22 July 1919.

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composed the score and

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designed the sets and costumes. Massine's collaborators, all Spanish, helped to make this ballet more authentic to its subject matter. ''Le Tricorn'' was a triumphant success. The story was inspired by the novel ''

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'' (1874) by

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. In order to authentically depict the Spanish character dances, Massine carefully studied the authentic Spanish character dance style.

Col. de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo

When George Balanchine left de Basil's company in 1933, Massine replaced him as resident choreographer. Massine's ballets during this period were reminiscent of Fyodor Lopukhov's Tanzsymphonia, in that an emphasis on the music drove the choreography. He continued to use symphonic music by well-known composers. In 1932 he created ' to libretto by

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, scenic design was by

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. In 1933, Massine created the world's first symphonic ballet, ''Les Présages'', using

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's Symphony No. 5. This caused a furor amongst musical purists, who objected to a serious symphonic work being used as the basis of a ballet. Undeterred, Massine continued work on ''Choreartium,'' set to Brahms' Fourth Symphony, which had its premiere on 24 October 1933 at the Alhambra Theatre in London. Massine also choreographed a ballet to

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's 1830 ''

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'' and danced the role of The Young Musician with

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as The Beloved at its premiere at

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, London, on 24 July 1936 with Colonel

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Massine & Blum's Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo

Leaving Col. de Basil's company, in 1937 Massine and René Blum (himself a former associate of de Basil's) acquired financing from Julius Fleischmann, Jr.'s World Art, Inc. to create a new ballet company, with Massine as the resident choreographer. Massine soon discovered that the ballets he had choreographed while under contract with Col. de Basil were owned by his company. Massine sued Col. de Basil in

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to regain the intellectual property rights to his own works. He also sued to claim the ''Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo'' name. The jury decided that Col. de Basil owned Massine's ballets created between 1932 and 1937, but not those created before 1932. through the Internet Archive It also ruled that both successor companies could use the name ''Ballet Russe'' — but only Massine & Blum's company could be called ''Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo''. Col. de Basil finally settled on the ''

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debuted in 1938; Massine choreographed ''

'', set to music by

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, which premiered on 5 April at the Théâtre de Monte Carlo. ''Gaîté Parisienne'' was one of Massine's most celebrated works during this time. Instead of a whole, singular composition for the score, Offenbach created a series of divertissements. This allowed Massine to use a wide variety of dancers and tempi, all while conveying a single narrative. Massine revived the piece for American Ballet Theater in 1970.

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and Susanna della Pietra mounted an additional revival for ABT in 1988. In this production, the costumes were designed by Christian Lacroix, who created animated and eccentric costumes based on his own 1987 haute couture collection. A month after premiering ''Gaîté Parisienne'' Massine produced ''Seventh Symphony,'' to Beethoven's score. It premiered on 5 May 1938 in Monte Carlo, with

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, and

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as the principal dancers. Massine left Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1943.

Bay Area

In 1977 Massine moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to begin a series of choreographic workshops, as well as revive his work ''Le Beau Danube'' for the Marin Ballet. At the same time, Massine was working on plans for ''Parisina,'' which was to be performed by Natalia Makarova. However, Makarova began to suspect her part was originated on another dancer and pulled out of the project. Massine was appointed resident choreographer of the Marin Ballet. He began work on a new production of ''The Nutcracker,'' which was never seen outside the studio.

Film work

Massine appeared in two feature-length films by the British directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger: '' The Red Shoes'' (1948) and ''

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'' (1951). He also had a cameo appearance in Powell's later film ''

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'' (1959). Massine starred in several films of ballet short subjects. For

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, he starred with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in a short Technicolor film of his ballet ''Capriccio Espagnol'', entitled ''Spanish Fiesta'' (1942). He choreographed and danced in the 1947

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color film ''

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'', and also choreographed and appeared as Pulcinella in the film ''Carosello Napoletano''. In 1941, Warner Bros made an attempt at a film version of the ballet of ''Gaîté Parisienne,'' entitled ''

The Gay Parisian ''The Gay Parisian'' is an American short film produced in 1941 by Warner Bros. and directed by Jean Negulesco. The film is a screen adaptation, in Technicolor, of the 1938 ballet ''Gaîté Parisienne'', choreographed by Léonide Massine to mus ...

.'' The attempt was not well received, partly due to the fact that the signature role, played by Alexandra Danilova in the original work, was recast on a lesser dancer, Milada Mladova.

Personal life

In his youth, Massine was the protégé and lover of Diaghilev. In later life he enjoyed numerous love affairs with beautiful women and had four wives. His first two wives, Vera Savina (née Vera Clark) and Eugenia Delarova, were both ballet dancers. With his third wife, Tatiana Orlova, he had two children, a son, Leonide Massine II (who later changed his name to "Lorca Massine"), and a daughter, Tatiania. He and Orlova divorced in 1968. He subsequently married Hannelore Holtwick, with whom he had two sons, Peter and Theodor, and made his home in Borken,

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, where he died on 15 March 1979. In 1968 Massine published his autobiography, entitled ''My Life in Ballet''.

Awards

Massine was inducted into the

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in 2002.

Major works

*1915: '' Soleil de Nuit'' (''Midnight Sun'', to the music of

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, set and costumes by

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) *1916: ''Las Meninas'' (music by

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) *1917: '' The Good-Humoured Ladies'' (music by

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, arr.

Vincenzo Tommasini Vincenzo Tommasini (17 September 187823 December 1950) was an Italian composer. Born in Rome, Tommasini studied philology and the Greek language at the University of Rome, at the same time pursuing equally intensive studies in music at the Aca ...

) *1917: ''

'' (music by

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) *1919: ''

'' (music by

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, arr.

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) *1919: ''

The Three-Cornered Hat ''El sombrero de tres picos'' (''The Three-Cornered Hat'' or ''Le tricorne'') is a ballet choreographed by Léonide Massine to music by Manuel de Falla. It was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and premiered in 1919. It is not only a ballet with S ...

'' (music by

) *1920: ''

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'' (music by

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) *1924: '' Le Beau Danube'' (music by

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, arr. Roger Desormière) *1928: ''

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'' (music by

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, scenario by

, designe by

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) *1930: ''

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'' (music by

) *1933: ''

Les Présages ''Les Présages'' is a ballet choreographed by Léonide Massine 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 Opéra de Monte Carlo by the Ballets Russe ...

'' (to the music of Symphony No. 5 by

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) *1933: '' Choreartium'' (to the music of Symphony No. 4 by

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) *1936: ''

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'' (to the music of ''

'' by

) *1938: ''

'' (music by

, arr.

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) *1938: ''Seventh Symphony'' (music by

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) *1938: ''

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'' (music by

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) *1939: ''Capriccio Espagnol'' (music by

; filmed in

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' 1941 short ''Spanish Fiesta'') *1942: ''

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'' (music by

) *1943: '' Mam'zelle Angot'' (music,

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) *1944: ''Mad Tristan'' (with sets, costumes, and artwork by

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) *1948: ''Capriccio'' (music by

) *1952: '' Laudes Evangelii'' (music by Valentino Bucchi, filmed for TV by

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in 1961).

Filmography

References

External links

* on Australia Dancing *
Leonide Massine watches a rehearsal of Parade - with images

Massine-Ballet.com

Grave site

Archive film of Leonide Massine's Gaite Parisienne in 1948 at Jacob's Pillow

Guide to Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo records concerning Leonide Massine
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Early life and education

Ballets Russes

Col. de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo

Massine & Blum's Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo

Bay Area

Film work

Personal life

Awards

Major works

Filmography

See also

References

External links