His choreographer Michel Fokine often adapted the music for ballet.

* August 22 – Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer ( b. 1880 )

Daphnis et Chloé took three years to complete, with conflicts constantly arising among the principal artists, including Léon Bakst ( sets and costumes ), Michel Fokine ( libretto ), and Ravel ( music ).

** Le Carnaval ( 1910 )— music by Robert Schumann ( orchestrated by Aleksandr Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatole Liadov, and Alexander Tcherepnin ), choreography by Michel Fokine, set and costumes by Leon Bakst.

** Papillons ( Butterflies )— music by Robert Schumann ( arranged by Nicolai Tcherepnin ), choreography by Michel Fokine, sets by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and costumes by Leon Bakst.

** Petrushka ( 1911 )— music by Igor Stravinsky, choreography by Michel Fokine, sets and costumes by Alexandre Benois.

* Russian — Fokine, Michel: The Immortal Pierrot ( 1925 ; ballet, premiered in New York City ).

It led Diaghilev to create his famous company the Ballets Russes with choreographer Michel Fokine and designer Léon Bakst.

Pavlova is perhaps most renowned for creating the role of The Dying Swan, a solo choreographed for her by Michel Fokine.

Ferncliff Cemetery is located on Secor Road in Hartsdale, famous as the burial grounds for many celebrities including Aaliyah, Malcolm X, Heavy D, Judy Garland, Jerome Kern, Joan Crawford, Basil Rathbone, Ed Sullivan, Jam-Master Jay, James Baldwin, Michel Fokine, Tom Carvel, Oscar Hammerstein, Thelonious Monk, Paul Robeson, Minnesota Timberwolves Guard Malik Sealy and others.

To present these works Diaghilev recruited the choreographer Michel Fokine, the designer Léon Bakst and the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky.

In 1939, Michel Fokine wrote to Rachmaninoff from Auckland, New Zealand, where he was touring, seeking the composer's approval to use Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for his ballet Paganini, which he had almost finished choreographing.

He worked together with the choreographer Michel Fokine to create the ballet Les Sylphides.

The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an eponymous romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from around the 2nd century AD.

The orchestra was conducted by Pierre Monteux, the choreography was by Michel Fokine, and Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina danced the parts of Daphnis and Chloe.

Category: Ballets by Michel Fokine

Vreeland was sent to dancing school and was a pupil of Michel Fokine, the only Imperial ballet master to ever leave Russia, and later of Louis Chalif.

* Michel Fokine

Michel Fokine ( a French transliteration ; English transliteration Mikhail Fokin ;, Mikhaíl Mikháylovich Fokín ) ( – 22 August 1942 ) was a groundbreaking Russian choreographer and dancer.

* Beaumont, C. W., Michel Fokine and His Ballets, ISBN 1-85273-050-1

* Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942.

* Fokine, Michel ( 1880-1942 ) at Australia Dancing

Ballets by Michel Fokine

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* Michel Strogoff – 1880

Other books by him which indicate his interests in literature include: Robert Southey ( in the " English Men of Letters " series, 1880 ), his edition of Southey's Correspondence with Caroline Bowles ( 1881 ), and Select Poems of Southey ( 1895 ), his Correspondence of Sir Henry Taylor ( 1888 ), his edition of Wordsworth's Poetical Works ( 1892 ) and of his Lyrical Ballads ( 1890 ), his French Revolution and English Literature ( 1897 ; lectures given at Princeton University in 1896 ), History of French Literature ( 1897 ), Puritan and Anglican ( 1900 ), Robert Browning ( 1904 ) and Michel de Montaigne ( 1905 ).

* Michel Chasles ( 1793 – 1880 ), mathematician

Michel Floréal Chasles ( 15 November 1793 – 18 December 1880 ) was a French mathematician.

His Théâtre complet ( 3 vols., 1899 ) includes L ' Enfant prodigue ( Vaudeville Theatre, 6 November 1868 ); Michel Pauper ( Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 17 June 1870 ); L ' Enlèvement ( Vaudeville, 18 November 1871 ); La Navette ( Gymnase, 15 November 1878 ); Les Honnêtes Femmes ( Gymnase, 1 January 1880 ); Les Corbeaux ( Comédie-Française, 14 September 1882 ); and La Parisienne ( Théâtre de la Renaissance, 7 February 1885 ).

* Michel Fokine ( 1880 – 1942 ), Ballet master of the Mariinsky Ballet from 1904-1909.

* 1952 – Michel Larocque, Canadian hockey player ( d. 1992 )

* 1983 – Michel Bastos, Brazilian footballer

* 1952 – Michel Blanc, French actor

* 1987 – Michel Kreder, Dutch cyclist

* 1930 – Michel Rocard, French politician, Prime Minister of France

* 1721 – Michel Chamillart, French statesman ( b. 1652 )

* 1603 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman ( d. 1685 )

* 1919 – Michel Déon, French writer

* 1652 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician ( d. 1719 )

* 1960 – Michel Goulet, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1727 – Michel Adanson, French botanist ( d. 1806 )

* Michel Foucault –

* Michel Foucault –

Persons who had a notable career in France returned to Corsica to write in Corsican, such as the musical producers, Dumenicu Togniotti, director of the Teatru Paisanu, which produced polyphonic musicals, 1973 – 1982, followed in 1980 by Michel Raffaelli's Teatru di a Testa Mora, and Saveriu Valentini's Teatru Cupabbia in 1984.

* 1657 – Michel Richard Delalande, French Baroque composer and organist ( d. 1726 )

* 1997 – Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker ( b. 1929 )

* 1964 – Michel Courtemanche, French Canadian comedian

* 1925 – Michel Piccoli, French actor

* 2006 – Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player ( b. 1948 )

* 1916 – Michel Chartrand, Quebec union leader ( d. 2010 )

* 1975 – Jaydy Michel, Mexican model

* 1934 – Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor

* 1932 – Michel Legrand, French composer

* 1971 – Michel Breistroff, French hockey player ( d. 1996 )

* 1956 – Michel Houellebecq, French writer