Serge Lifar
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Serge Lifar was a Ukrainian dancer. Lifar was also a choreographer, director, writer, theoretician about dance, and collector.
Serge Lifar in 1961
Serge Lifar with siblings Leonid, Basil, Evgenia
Lifar in Karol Szymanowski's Harnasie in 1936
Lifar with Tamara Toumanova
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conductor with French and American citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century a
Serge Lifar
…in a 'chariot' formed by his male companions; Ode, with a score by Nicholas Nabokov, by Léonide Massine and Apollon Musagète (1928) with a score by Stravinsky depicting the birth of the Greek God Apollo and his encounter with the three muses, Calliope, Polyhymnia, and Terpsichore; and Le Fils prodigue (The…
Stravinsky in the early 1920s
Yekaterina Stravinsky in 1907
Diaghilev in 1916
Opening measures of the "Sacrificial Dance" from The Rite of Spring, showing the odd meters and chords