Ballet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925 - Tapa dura

Volynsky, Akim

 
9780300124620: Ballet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925
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ISBN 10: 0300124627 ISBN 13: 9780300124620
Editorial: Yale University Press, 2008

Sinopsis

Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book, the first English edition of his provocative and influential writings, provides a striking look at life inside the world of Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history. Stanley J. Rabinowitz selects and translates forty of Volynsky's articles-vivid, eyewitness accounts that sparkle with details about the careers and personalities of such dance luminaries as Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Fokine, Tamara Karsavina, and George Balanchine, at that time a young dancer in the Maryinsky company whose keen musical sense and creative interpretive power Volynsky was one of the first to recognize. Rabinowitz also translates Volynsky's magnum opus, The Book of Exaltations, an elaborate meditation on classical dance technique that is at once a primer and an ideological treatise. Throughout his writings, Rabinowitz argues in his critical introduction, which sets Volynsky's life and work against the backdrop of the principal intellectual currents of his time, Volynsky emphasizes the spiritual and ethereal qualities of ballet.

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Acerca del autor

Stanley J. Rabinowitz is Henry Steele Commager Professor and professor of Russian, Amherst College, and director of the Amherst Center for Russian Culture. He lives in Amherst, MA.

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Editorial
Yale University Press
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0300124627
ISBN 13 
9780300124620
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Número de páginas
352
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9780300164497: Ballet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925

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ISBN 10:  0300164491 ISBN 13:  9780300164497
Editorial: Yale University Press, 2010
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