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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin, better known in the West by the French transliteration as Leonide Massine (9 August [O.S. 28 July] 1896 - 15 March 1979) was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer.Leonide Massine was born in Moscow and studied at the Bolshoi Theatre school. From 1915 to 1921 he was the principal choreographer of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Following the departure of Vaslav Nijinsky, the company's first male star, Massine became the preeminent male star and took over Nijinsky's roles. After the death of Diaghilev, and the disbanding, Massine became the choreographer and male lead dancer of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, one of the companies that succeeded the original Ballets Russes

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