Ballet's magic kingdom
Subtitle: selected writings on dance in Russia, 1911-1925
By: Akim Volynsky ; translated and with an introduction and notes by Stanley J. Rabinowitz.
Contributors: Rabinowitz, Stanley J.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780300124620
Subjects: Ballet -- Russia (Federation) -- History and criticism; Ballet -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 20th century; Ballet dancers -- Russia (Federation) -- History
Work titles: Selections.
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.