Serge Lifar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Serge Lifar

Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer

Date of Birth: 02-Apr-1904

Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukraine

Date of Death: 15-Dec-1986

Profession: writer, ballet dancer, ballet master, choreographer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Serge Lifar (Ukrainian: ?????? ?????????? ?????, Serh?y M?khailov?ch L?far; Russian: ?????´? ????´?????? ????´??, Sergey Mikhaylovich Lifar) (15 April [O.S.
2 April] 1905, Kiev, Russian Empire – 15 December 1986, Lausanne, Switzerland) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer of Ukrainian origin, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century.
Not only a dancer, 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.