Who commissioned the 1919 ballet written by the creator of the role of the Can-Can Dancer in "La Boutique fantasque"?
The Three-Cornered Hat El sombrero de tres picos ("The Three-Cornered Hat" or "Le tricorne") is a ballet choreographed by Léonide Massine to music by Manuel de Falla, commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and premiered complete in 1919. It is not only a ballet with Spanish setting but one that also employs the techniques of Spanish dance (adapted and somewhat simplified) instead of classical ballet.
Frances Wessells Frances Wessells (born August 18, 1919) is an American dancer, choreographer, and Associate Professor "Emerita" and founder of the dance department at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). She helped form the department of dance at VCU and is still teaching and dancing professionally in her late nineties.