Alexander Sakharoff
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(from left) Alexej von Jawlensky, Clotilde von Derp, Marianne von Werefkin, Alexander Sakharoff
Alexander Sakharoff (Russian: Александр Сахаров, also spelled Sakharov and Sacharoff, May 13, 1886 - September 25, 1963) was a Russian dancer, teacher, and choreographer.
He was born Alexander Zuckermann in Mariupol on May 13, 1886 , Ukraine. Alexander was one of the most innovative soloist dancers of the first decades of the 20th century. He married the German dancer Clotilde von der Planitz (1893-1974), and they had together a successful career.
In his book Reflections on the Dance and Music, he explained his artistic credo in the following way: "... Clotilde Sakharoff and I did not dance with music or accompanied by music: we danced music. We made the music visual, expressing by means of movements what the composer has expressed by means of sounds... Nothing less than the states of the soul, the impressions, the sensations lived by the composer and transposed to the sound with the help of its art... Our aim was to transpose the sense expressed by the music of the sounds, to the music of the movements."
He died in Siena, Italy September 25, 1963, buried in Cimitero Acattolico in Rome.
