Balanchine and the Lost Muse
Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 9 July 2015
- ISBN 9780190227944
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 155x234x25 mm
- Weight 445 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 b/w halftones 0
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Short description:
Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend, extraordinary ballerina Lidia (Lidochka) Ivanova. A talented and bold dancer who grew close to the Bolshevik elite in her adolescent years, Ivanova was a source of great inspiration to Balanchine--both during their youth together, and later in his life, after her mysterious death in 1924, just days before they had planned to leave Russia together.
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Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend, the extraordinary ballerina Lidia (Lidochka) Ivanova.
Tracing the lives and friendship of these two dancers from years just before the 1917 Russian Revolution to Balanchine's escape from Russia in 1924, Elizabeth Kendall's Balanchine & the Lost Muse sheds new light on a crucial flash point in the history of ballet. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Kendall weaves a fascinating tale about this decisive period in the life of the man who would become the most influential choreographer in modern ballet. Abandoned by his mother at the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet Academy in 1913 at the age of nine, Balanchine spent his formative years studying dance in Russia's tumultuous capital city. It was there, as he struggled to support himself while studying and performing, that Balanchine met Ivanova. A talented and bold dancer who grew close to the Bolshevik elite in her adolescent years, Ivanova was a source of great inspiration to Balanchine--both during their youth together, and later in his life, after her mysterious death in 1924, just days before they had planned to leave Russia together. Kendall shows that although Balanchine would have a great number of muses, many of them lovers, the dark beauty of his dear friend Lidochka would inspire much of his work for years to come.
Part biography and part cultural history, Balanchine & the Lost Muse presents a sweeping account of the heyday of modern ballet and the culture behind the unmoored ideals, futuristic visions, and human decadence that characterized the Russian Revolution.
Kendall's portrait of Balanchine's first twenty years will now be the standard reference for this period ... Balanchine and the Lost Muse is a breathtaking conversation with [Balanchine himself].
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of archives
Glossary of Names
Introduction: Petrograd, May 5, 1920
Chapter I: Caucasus to Capital
Chapter II: Georgi
Chapter III: Theater School: Boys
Chapter IV: Lidochka
Chapter V: Theater School: Girls
Chapter VI: 1917
Chapter VII: War Communism
Chapter VIII: NEP Economics
Chapter IX: The Young Ballet
Chapter X: The Last Year, Summer to Summer
Chapter XI: A Death, a Life
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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