Massine

“You could feel Stravinsky and Massine and Benois and Picasso and all those people in the room with us. To perform this music in that place on a bare stage with the ghosts was overwhelming.”

Unfortunately, Massine is even younger and, as scripted, more peripheral.

Raised outside of Paris by a French-German father and a Russian mother, she is the granddaughter of ��é�DzԾ���� Massine, the celebrated Ballets Russes choreographer who counted Matisse and Picasso as friends.

In its heyday, it held an important place in dance, as a crucial repository for historical works by choreographers like ��é�DzԾ���� Massine and Vaslav Nijinsky.

Serge Diaghilev and the writer Jean Cocteau had brought together two of the great radicals, the painter Pablo Picasso and the composer Erik Satie; they collaborated on it with Diaghilev’s latest choreographer, ��é�DzԾ���� Massine.