L%C3%A9onide Massine

Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin , better known in the West by the French transliteration as Lonide Massine , was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer. Massine created the worlds first symphonic ballet, Les Prsages, 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 CanCan Dancer in La Boutique fantasque , the Hussar in Le Beau Danube , and, perhaps best known of all, the Peruvian in Gat Parisienne .

Lonide Massine was born in Moscow and was a ballet student at the Imperial Theater School in that city.

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