Balanchine And The Lost Muse Revolution And The Making Of A Choreographer
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780199959341
Description: "'Balanchine and the Lost Muse' traces the early lives and friendship of famed choreographer George Balanchine and the extraordinary young ballerina Lidia (Lidochka) Ivanova, from the years just before the 1917 Russian Revolution to Balanchine's escape from Russia in 1924 -- and in the process, sheds new light on a crucial flash point in the histories both of modern ballet and of Russia itself."--Book jacket.