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Serge Lifar

1904 - 1986

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Serge Lifar (Ukrainian: Сергій Михайлович Лифар, Serhіy Mуkhailovуch Lуfar) (20 March [O.S. 2 April] 1905 – 15 December 1986) was a Ukrainian dancer, choreographer, and one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century. Lifar was also a choreographer, director, writer, theoretician about dance, and collector. As ballet master of the Paris Opera from 1930 to 1944, and from 1947 to 1958, he devoted himself to the restoration of the technical level of the Paris Opera Ballet, returning it to its place as one of the best companies in the world. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Serge Lifar is the 20th most popular dancer (up from 21st in 2019), the 155th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 164th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Dancer.

Serge Lifar was a Russian-born French dancer and choreographer. He is most famous for his work as a ballet dancer and choreographer.

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Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Serge Lifar ranks 20 out of 116. Before him are Maya Plisetskaya, Michel Fokine, Jean-Georges Noverre, Tamara Karsavina, Martha Graham, and George Balanchine. After him are Alicia Alonso, Izumo no Okuni, Galina Ulanova, Bronislava Nijinska, Carlo Blasis, and Mary Wigman.

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Among people born in 1904, Serge Lifar ranks 54. Before him are Tadao Takayama, Héctor Castro, Clifford D. Simak, Otto Robert Frisch, František Plánička, and Prince Ernst of Hohenberg. After him are Lal Bahadur Shastri, Luigi Dallapiccola, Moshé Feldenkrais, Peter Lorre, Henri Cartan, and Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta. Among people deceased in 1986, Serge Lifar ranks 47. Before him are Megumu Tamura, Lê Duẩn, Vincente Minnelli, Juan Rulfo, Raimundo Orsi, and Ye Jianying. After him are Dean Reed, Donna Reed, Coluche, Aleksandr Akimov, Michel de Certeau, and Theodor Busse.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Serge Lifar ranks 155 out of 1,365. Before him are Mikhail Kirponos (1892), Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945), Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803), Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), and Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030). After him are Leo Kanner (1894), Boris Savinkov (1879), Eupraxia of Kiev (1071), Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842), Valentin Glushko (1908), and Henryk Siemiradzki (1843).

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Among DANCERS In Ukraine

Among dancers born in Ukraine, Serge Lifar ranks 2. Before him are Vaslav Nijinsky (1889). After him are Olga Khokhlova (1891), Natalia Dudinskaya (1912), Svetlana Zakharova (1979), Sergei Polunin (1989), and Masha Dashkina Maddux (1986).

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