Massine

American  

[mah-seen] / mɑˈsin /

noun

1. Léonide 1896–1979, U.S. ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Russia.

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Massine British  

/ mɑːˈsiːn /

noun

1. Léonide (leɔnid). 1896–1979, US ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Russia

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Example Sentences

“You could feel Stravinsky and Massine and Benois and Picasso and all those people in the room with us. To perform this music in that place on a bare stage with the ghosts was overwhelming.”

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Unfortunately, Massine is even younger and, as scripted, more peripheral.

From New York Times

Raised outside of Paris by a French-German father and a Russian mother, she is the granddaughter of Léonide Massine, the celebrated Ballets Russes choreographer who counted Matisse and Picasso as friends.

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In its heyday, it held an important place in dance, as a crucial repository for historical works by choreographers like Léonide Massine and Vaslav Nijinsky.

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Serge Diaghilev and the writer Jean Cocteau had brought together two of the great radicals, the painter Pablo Picasso and the composer Erik Satie; they collaborated on it with Diaghilev’s latest choreographer, Léonide Massine.

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