Serge Lifar (15 April 1905, Kiev, Russian Empire – 15 December 1986, Lausanne, Switzerland) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer of Ukrainian origin.

Serge Lifar (15 April 1905, Kiev, Russian Empire – 15 December 1986, Lausanne, Switzerland) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer of Ukrainian origin, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century. Not only a dancer, Lifar was also a choreographer, director, writer, theoretician about dance, and collector.

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (/diˈæɡɪlɛf/; Russian: Серге́й Па́влович Дя́гилев, IPA: ; 31 March 1872 – 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic,.

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (/diˈæɡɪlɛf/; Russian: Серге́й Па́влович Дя́гилев, IPA: ; 31 March 1872 – 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

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Serge Diaghilev - Serge Lifar. In the mask and face of Serge Pavlovitch Diaghilev, that first and last of his line, a shoot which gave no scion, we find many of the qualities which I shall call diaghilevism. His life, his work, his legend. An Intimate Biography. To us Diaghilev, diaghilevism, stand for one man and one man only, Serge Pavlovitch, one of those men by whose efforts was put in motion our land. Russian history needs no other Diaghilev, save only his aunt, Anna Pavlovna,² perhaps the most prominent social worker of the nineteenth century.

Our goals are to follow in Serge Lifar's footsteps and to protect, defend and perpetuate his name and memory. Serge Lifar was among the artists who introduced neo-classical ballet

Our goals are to follow in Serge Lifar's footsteps and to protect, defend and perpetuate his name and memory. Serge Lifar was among the artists who introduced neo-classical ballet. He was appointed Maître de Ballet of the Opéra de Paris, from 1930 to 1944 and again from 1947 to 1958. Serge Lifar endeavored to restore technical excellence of the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, making it, from the 1930s to this day, one of the greatest ballet companies in the world.

Serge Lifar Letters to Serge Diaghilev, MGZMD 77, Dance Collection. He studied with Bronislava Nijinska, who brought him to Paris in 1923 where he joined Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. He became a protege of Diaghilev, was named premiere danseur in 1925, and remained with the company through it s last season in 1929.