Serge Lifar
Ukrainian dancer and choreographer
Serge Lifar was a Ukrainian dancer and 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. Wikipedia
Born: March 20, 1905, Kyiv, Ukraine
Died: December 15, 1986 (age 81 years), Lausanne, Switzerland
Spouse: Inga-Lisa Amlefeldt (m. ?–1986)
Parents: Sophie Lifar and Michael Lifar
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Serge Lifar (15 April [O.S. 2 April] 1905 – 15 December 1986) was a Ukrainian dancer and choreographer, and one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the ...
Biography. Born in Kiev in 1905, Serge Lifar discovered dance in 1920 after accompanying a friend to the studio of Bronislava Nijinska, the sister of the great ...
Mar 29, 2024 · Lifar was a dramatic and athletic dancer who had a charismatic stage presence. The first ballet he choreographed was Le Renard (1929; “The Fox”; ...
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Serge Lifar was born in Kiev and was mobilized by the Red Army at the age of sixteen. In 1920, he discovered dance fortuitously after accompanying a friend ...
Lifar was very handsome, had a fine physique, and a great desire to be liked. He was known for his notorious and unscrupulous displays of ego. Partnering Alicia ...
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Born in Ukraine, Serge Lifar was one of the great male dancers of the 20th century. He trained with Bronislava Nijinska and Enrico Cecchetti and became a star ...
Serge Lifar's path to stardom is a true Cinderella story. After fleeing his native, war-torn Ukraine at the age of 17 to join Diaghilev's Ballets Russes as ...
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Born on 2 April 1905, in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital on the Dnieper, Serge Lifar spent a happy childhood, spoiled by his bourgeois family. His grandfather on ...