Elizabeth Kendall

Balanchine & the Lost Muse

Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer

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Produktbeschreibung

A detailed study of the relationship between Lidiia Ivanova and George Balanchine, two key figures in Russian ballet.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780199959341
• ISBN-10: 019995934X
• Artikelnr.: 38078123

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Kendall is author of Autobiography of a Wardrobe (Pantheon 2008); American Daughter (Random House 2000); The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s (Knopf 1990); and Where She Danced (Knopf 1979). She is a tenured associate professor of Literary Studies at The New School. She has written for The New Yorker, Vogue, Ballet News, Dance Magazine, The New York Times, Elle, The New Republic and other journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Balanchivadze family
Chapter 2. Everyone Wants to be the Favorite Child.
Chapter 3. Balanchine's first year at the Imperial Theater School.
Chapter 4. "Everything simple and full of light". Lidochka's childhood.
Chapter 5. Inside the Romanov Laboratory.
Chapter 6. Revolution
Chapter 7. 1918 - 1920: Civil War. The Chosen Generation.
Chapter 8. 1920 - 1923: The Young Ballet is born.
Chapter 9. 1923-1924: The Last Year .
Chapter 10. Epilogue.
Appendix I. The Other Family
Notes
References
Index