The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Fokine, Michel

Fokine, Michel (1880–1942),
Russian dancer, who became the 20th century's first important choreographer, spending the last two decades of his life in America, where he worked on Florenz Ziegfeld's 1922 Follies. Engaged as a choreographer earlier in the century by Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes, Fokine significantly developed newer styles of dancing, creating ballets to existing music, important among which was Les Sylphides (1908), with music by Chopin. The Firebird (1910) and Petrushka (1922), with music by Stravinsky, are two works on fairy‐tale themes for which Fokine is especially remembered.

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