André Levinson

André Yacovlev Levinson, Андрей (Андрэ) Яковлевич Левинсон; Andrey Yakovl'evich Levinson (November 1, 1887, St. Petersburg - December 3, 1933, Paris) was, after leaving Russia in 1918, a French dance journalist.

At the University of Sankt Peterburg he had been a professor of Romance languages. Regarding ballet, he then championed "pure academic dance". He opposed the reforms advanced by choreographer Michel Fokine and impresario Sergei Diaghilev.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ Horst Koegler, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet ([1972], Oxford University 1977), p.324 (quote).
  2. ↑ Cf., André Levinson, André Levinson on Dance: Writings from Paris in the twenties (Wesleyan University 1991), edited and introduced by Joan Acocella and Lynn Garafola.

Literary works

  • Meister des Ballets, 1923
  • La Argentina, 1928
  • La danse d'aujourd'hui, 1929


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