Article: Fokine favorites on tour.(Kirov Ballet tours United States performing works by choreographer Michel Fokine)

The Kirov Ballet (the company on which Michel Fokine cut his choreographic teeth, then known as the Maryinsky) is making a U.S. tour in October and November with a program of the famous choreographer's early works, all choreographed before he left Russia (see Fall Preview and Calendar, DANCE MAGAZINE, September, page 45). Audiences in Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, and three California locations will see Chopiniana (better known in the West as Les Sylphides), The Firebird, and Scheherazade; in Boston, the opening night performance will include Le Spectre de la rose and The Dying Swan.

Chopiniana is set to waltzes, mazurkas, and preludes by Frederic Chopin; although ...

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