Vintage Posters

After Diaghilev's death, in 1929, Lifar joined the Paris Opera Ballet as premier danseur and ballet master and soon instituted weekly ballet performances, thus abolishing the Opera's practice of producing ballet only in conjunction with opera. In 1932 he was awarded the title of professeur de danse and began reforms of the Opera's school to enable its dancers to perform the more modern ballets, particularly his own.