Serge Lifar

Serge Lifar
Сергей Михайлович Лифарь
Serge Lifar in 1961
Born
Serhіy Mуkhailovуch Lуfar

15 April 1905
Died15 December 1986(1986-12-15) (aged 81)
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
NationalityRussian, naturalized French
Occupation(s)ballet dancer, choreographer
Known forParis Opéra Ballet
Serge Lifar with siblings Leonid, Basil, Evgenia
Lifar in Karol Szymanowski's Harnasie in 1936
Lifar with Tamara Toumanova

Serge Lifar (Ukrainian: Сергій Михайлович Лифар, Serhіy Mуkhailovуch Lуfar) (15 April [O.S. 2 April] 1905  – 15 December 1986) was a Ukrainian dancer, choreographer, and one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century. Lifar was also a choreographer, director, writer, theoretician about dance, and collector.[1]

As ballet master of the Paris Opera from 1930 to 1944, and from 1947 to 1958, he devoted himself to the restoration of the technical level of the Paris Opera Ballet, returning it to its place as one of the best companies in the world.

  1. ^ Crisp, Clement (Winter 2002). "ICARE: Remembering Serge Lifar". Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research. 2. 20 (2): 3–15. doi:10.3366/1290812.