Laurent Novikoff

Laurent Novikoff
Born(1888-07-24)24 July 1888
Moscow, Russia
Died18 July 1956(1956-07-18) (aged 67)
New Buffalo, Michigan, U.S.

Laurent Novikoff (Russian: Лаврентий Лаврентьевич Новиков; 1888 – June 18, 1956), also known as Laurent Novikov, was a Russian ballet dancer who became a citizen of the United States in 1939.

Biography

Anna Pavlova and Novikoff in 1911

He graduated from Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet School in 1906. He danced with Diaghilev in 1909 and again from 1919 to 1921, then with Pavlova's company from 1911 to 1914 and again from 1921 to 1928. He became the ballet master at the Chicago Opera from 1929 to 1933. He danced at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1941 to 1945.

He opened a ballet school in New Buffalo, Michigan, and died there in 1956.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Novikoff Is Dead. Pavlova Partner. Dancer, Ballet Master and Teacher Served at 'Met'. Had School in Chicago". The New York Times. June 29, 1956. Retrieved 2013-02-18. Laurent Novikoff, Russian dancer, ballet master and teacher, died June 18 of a heart attack at his home in New Buffalo, Mich. He was 68 years old. ...
  2. ↑ "Laurent Novikoff (1888-1956)". Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  3. ↑ Sowell, Debra Hickenlooper (1998). The Christensen Brothers: An American Dance Epic. Psychology Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-90-5755-029-4. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  4. ↑ Harold George Scott (1975). Lelia: The Compleat Ballerina. But even more important, the balletmaster in Chicago was Laurent Novikoff, who had been Anna Pavlova's partner ...