Finding Balanchine's Lost Ballets
Title | Finding Balanchine's Lost Ballets PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Kattner |
Publisher | University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | 193 |
Release | 2020-10-20 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0813057663 |
Ever since George Balanchine arrived on the American dance scene in 1933, his revolutionary, fleet-footed repertoire has been immortalized in the ballet canon. Yet most of the works he created in Russia as a budding choreographer have been lost to history—until now. In the first book to focus exclusively on Balanchine’s Russian ballets, Elizabeth Kattner offers new insights into the artistic evolution of a legend through her reconstruction of his first group ballet, Funeral March. Drawing on more than a decade of research conducted in archives in the United States and Europe, Kattner synthesizes textual descriptions, photographs, musical scores, and the comparative study of other early Balanchine ballets in order to re-create this forgotten work. By interpreting and building upon these historical findings in the studio and in performance, this project enables dance history to be experienced kinesthetically. Addressing the controversy surrounding whether unrecorded dances should be reconstructed in the first place, Kattner meticulously describes her research methodologies, providing a valuable resource for other scholars seeking to revive history in this way. Finding Balanchine’s Lost Ballets enriches our understanding of Balanchine’s development as a choreographer through its ambitious, original approach to the subject. Kattner argues for the importance of dance reconstruction, when correctly approached, as a tool for reimagining the past and charting the future possibilities of dance history research.
Balanchine and the Lost Muse
Title | Balanchine and the Lost Muse PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Kendall |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2013-08-29 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 019995934X |
Balanchine and the Lost Muse is a dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet, in the crucial time surrounding the Russian revolution: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend, ballerina Liidia Ivanova.
Balanchine and the Lost Muse
Title | Balanchine and the Lost Muse PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Kendall |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Choreographers |
ISBN | 9780199346028 |
'Balanchine and the Lost Muse' is a dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet, in the crucial time surrounding the Russian revolution: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend, ballerina Liidia (Lidochka) Ivanova.
George Balanchine
Title | George Balanchine PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Seibert |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | 52 |
Release | 2005-12-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781404206410 |
Presents the life and accomplishments of the choreographer who made over four hundred dance works and is considered to be the most important ballet choreographer of the twentieth century.
I Remember Balanchine
Title | I Remember Balanchine PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Mason |
Publisher | Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | 648 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Choreographers |
ISBN |
Various friends and associates of Balanchine recall his impact upon their lives.
Balanchine
Title | Balanchine PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Taper |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 452 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780520060593 |
Written with wit, insight, and candor, this updated edition of Balanchine is a book that will delight lovers of biography as well as those with a special interest in dance. For this edition the author has added a thoughtful yet dramatic account of the working out of Balanchine's legacy, from the making of his controversial will to the present day. Book jacket.
101 Stories of the Great Ballets
Title | 101 Stories of the Great Ballets PDF eBook |
Author | George Balanchine |
Publisher | Anchor |
Total Pages | 562 |
Release | 1975-05-20 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0385033982 |
Authored by one of the ballet's most respected experts, this volume includes scene-by-scene retellings of the most popular classic and contemporary ballets, as performed by the world's leading dance companies. Certain to delight long-time fans as well as those just discovering the beauty and drama of ballet.