Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or records:
Collection
Found in:
Music Division
Dance Notation Collection
Identifier: ML31.D35
Abstract
The Dance Notation Collection consists of scenarios, scores in codified dance notation, and descriptions of dance dating from 1893 to 1983, many of which originated from copyright deposits submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office to register rights for choreography. Most of these scores are recorded in Labanotation (also known as Kinetography Laban), the system of dance notation that Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958) developed. George Balanchine, Doris Humphrey, Kurt Jooss, Léonide Massine, and...
Dates
1893-1983; Majority of material found within 1947-1983
Collection
Found in:
Music Division
Serge Grigoriev / Ballets Russes Archive
Identifier: ML31.G75
Abstract
The Serge Grigoriev / Ballets Russes Archive documents Grigoriev’s decades-long career as régisseur (rehearsal director) for both Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and for Col. W. de Basil’s Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. It consists primarily of photographs, photograph albums, and notes and manuscript drafts for Grigoriev’s book S.P. Diaghilev i ego ‘Russkii Balet’ 1909-1929, which was translated into English and published as The Diaghilev...
Dates
1909-2009; Majority of material found within ( 1909-1952)