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Lorca Massine is an American choreographer and dancer, born in New York on July 25, 1944 ,[1] to Russian immigrant Léonide Massine, an accomplished choreographer and dancer. He studied dance with his father, Victor Gsovsky, Asaf Messerer and Anatole Wilzac.[2] Over his career, he has collaborated with world-acclaimed choreographers such as Balanchine, Béjart, as well as his father.[3]

Repertoire

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Massine's works have been performed by companies such as the Birmingham Royal Ballet,[4] New York City Ballet,[5] American Ballet Theatre,[6] Béjart's Ballet of the Twentieth Century[7] and the Paris Opera Ballet.[8] His works have also been performed at venues such as the Metropolitan Opera (New York), Teatro alla Scala (Milan), Teatro la Fenice (Venice), Teatro San Carlo (Naples), Teatro dell'Opera (Rome), Teatro Massimo (Palermo), Teatro Carlo Felice (Genoa), the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden (London), and the Arena di Verona.

Zorba

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Like his father, Massine presents contemporary themes in dance based on the classical background. He has created more than fifty ballet choreographies and musical works. His breakthrough work Zorba was premiered at the Arena of Verona in 1988 and has since been seen in roughly forty countries.[9]

Directorships

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  • Director, Ballet of Opera of Rome, 1981-1983[10]
  • Director, Ballet of the Polish National Opera (Warsaw), 1992-1994[11]

Staging the works of Léonide Massine

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Lorca Massine is also known for setting his father's choreographic works on contemporary stages, including the Paris Opera, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, the Pennsylvania Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Bavarian State Ballet, the Boston Ballet and Vienna State Ballet. In 2005, three ballets of Léonide Massine became part of the repertoire of the Bolshoi Ballet.

As the reviver of his father's ballets, he staged the following works:

  • Choreartium
  • Gaieté Parisienne
  • La Boutique Fantasque
  • La Symphonie Fantastique
  • Laudes Evangelii (12th century music orchestrated by V. Buchi)
  • Les Presages
  • The Rite of Spring
  • The Picasso Ballets: Le Tricorne, Mercure, Parade and Pulcinella

Works

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Full-length Ballets

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One-Act Ballet

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References

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  1. ^ "Massine Lorca - Greek National Opera". virtualmuseum.nationalopera.gr. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
  2. ^ "Lorca Massine". Oxford Reference.
  3. ^ Staatsoper, Bayerische. "Massine Lorca". Bayerische Staatsoper. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  4. ^ "La Boutique fantasque". Birmingham Royal Ballet. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  5. ^ "New York City Ballet rehearsal of "Four Last Songs" with Lorca Massine and dancers, choreography by Lorca Massine (New York)". NYPL Digital Collections. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  6. ^ "Lorca Massine". American Ballet Theatre. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  7. ^ "Massine Lorca - Greek National Opera". virtualmuseum.nationalopera.gr. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  8. ^ "Lorca Massine's Parade and Pulcinella, music by Satie and Stravinsky, set and costumes by Pablo Picasso". medici.tv. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  9. ^ "Sofia Opera and Ballet | "Zorba the Greek" again on the stage of Sofia Opera and Ballet". www.operasofia.bg. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  10. ^ "Picasso". Pompeii Sites. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  11. ^ "Nasi szefowie". Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa (in Polish). Retrieved 2021-01-30.
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