Lifar

American  

[lyi-fahr] / lyɪˈfɑr /

noun

1. Serge 1905–86, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, in Paris after 1923.

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Lifar British  

/ ljiˈfar /

noun

1. Serge (sɛrʒ). 1905–86, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer: ballet master at the Paris Opera Ballet (1932–58). His ballets include Prométhée (1929), Icare (1935), and Phèdre (1950)

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Example Sentences

Martinez said that, under his leadership, the Paris Opera Ballet would keep showing a number of its classic Rudolf Nureyev productions — though not necessarily all — and works by important French choreographers including Serge Lifar and Maurice Béjart.

From New York Times

The staging of works by Petit, Serge Lifar, Pierre Lacotte or the mostly forgotten Janine Charrat is patchy and dependent on who is running the major companies.

From New York Times

After he died, the graduates of his troupe more or less staffed the directorships of Western ballet—Léonide Massine and Bronislava Nijinska in Europe and America, Marie Rambert and Ninette de Valois in London, Serge Lifar in Paris, and, notably, George Balanchine in New York.

From The New Yorker

Ms. Charrat met Mr. Lifar during the making of “La Mort du Cygne”; he was the film’s choreographer and, more significantly, the director of the Paris Opera Ballet.

From New York Times

It was Lifar who encouraged Ms. Chauviré to retrain herself with two Russian émigré teachers, Victor Gsovsky and especially Boris Kniaseff, who softened the academic side of her schooling, gave her an elongated line and developed the lyricism that distinguished her style.

From New York Times