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Book Synopsis Baryshnikov, a Most Spectacular Dancer by : Saul Goodman
Download or read book Baryshnikov, a Most Spectacular Dancer written by Saul Goodman and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Russian dancer who, since his defection to the West in 1974, has achieved fame and recognition as one of the greatest dancers of his time.
Book Synopsis Baryshnikov at Work by : Mikhail Baryshnikov
Download or read book Baryshnikov at Work written by Mikhail Baryshnikov and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 1978 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man considered by many to be the world's greatest male dancer discusses all the roles he dances, the technical problems involved, and his stylistic approaches, while action photographs show him in twenty ballets
Book Synopsis Baryshnikov in Color by : Mikhail Baryshnikov
Download or read book Baryshnikov in Color written by Mikhail Baryshnikov and published by Harry N Abrams Incorporated. This book was released on 1980 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color photographs show Baryshnikov dancing various roles in ballets by George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins, and others, and are accompanied by the dancer's comments
Book Synopsis Because . . . by : Mikhail Baryshnikov
Download or read book Because . . . written by Mikhail Baryshnikov and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy who lives with his grandmother is terribly embarrassed by her behavior at first, but comes to realize that she is not just having fun, she has a reason for each strange action.
Book Synopsis Merce My Way by : Mikhail Baryshnikov
Download or read book Merce My Way written by Mikhail Baryshnikov and published by Baryshnikov Foundation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 85 of Baryshnikov's striking, never-before-published colour images, in which he seizes the essence of Cunningham's choreography by anticipating the dancers' motions and capturing the streaming fluidity of the dance. Features images of six recent Cunningham dances.
Book Synopsis Because ... by : Mikhail Baryshnikov
Download or read book Because ... written by Mikhail Baryshnikov and published by . This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful children¿s book about a young boy who lives with his grandmother by acclaimed dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. The boy is terribly embarrassed by her behavior at first, but comes to realize that she is not just having fun, she has a reason for each strange action. Leapfrog on Monday; roll over on Tuesday; break-dance and slide on Wednesday; tap and spin on Thursday; fun, flap, and swing on Friday; gallop on Saturday; fly on Sunday! Ages 4-8. Full-color illustrations.
Book Synopsis Dancing on Water by : Elena Tchernichova
Download or read book Dancing on Water written by Elena Tchernichova and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing on Water is both a personal coming-of-age story and a sweeping look at ballet life in Russia and the United States during the golden age of dance. Elena Tchernichova takes us from her childhood during the siege of Leningrad to her mother's alcoholism and suicide, and from her adoption by Kirov ballerina Tatiana Vecheslova, who entered her into the state ballet school, to her career in the American Ballet Theatre. As a student and young dancer with the Kirov, she witnessed the company's achievements as a citadel of classic ballet, home to legendary names--Shelest, Nureyev, Dudinskaya, Baryshnikov--but also a hotbed of intrigue and ambition run amok. As ballet mistress of American Ballet Theatre from 1978 to 1990, Elena was called "the most important behind-the-scenes force for change in ballet today," by Vogue magazine. She coached stars and corps de ballet alike, and helped mold the careers of some of the great dancers of the age, including Gelsey Kirkland, Cynthia Gregory, Natalia Makarova, and Alexander Godunov. Dancing on Water is a tour de force, exploring the highest levels of the world of dance.
Book Synopsis Baryshnikov by : Mikhail Baryshnikov
Download or read book Baryshnikov written by Mikhail Baryshnikov and published by Bloomsbury USA. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only collection of photographs documenting the last three decades of Mikhail Baryshnikov's brilliant career. Universally acknowledged as the most celebrated artist in the dance world (Time magazine proclaimed him 'the greatest living dancer') Mikhail Baryshnikov's defection from the Soviet Union in 1974, at the age of twenty-six, breathed new artistic freedom into an already astonishing career. Working with American Ballet Theatre (where he was Artistic Director for ten years), the New York City Ballet (with George Ballanchine), and finally forming his own company in 1990 with Mark Morris, White Oak Dance Project, Baryshnikov has, over these past decades, changed the face of dance. Baryshnikov in Black and White presents, in over 175 photographs, the remarkable breadth of his achievement between the years 1974 and 2000. From his legendary roles in the classic ballets Giselle and Don Quixote, to his work with some of the world's greatest contemporary choreographers, Baryshnikov is shown here in both rehearsal and performance. Captured by the leading dance photographers, his vitality and genius are evident on every page. With an inspired and richly detailed essay by the New Yorker dance critic (and Baryshnikov biographer) Joan Acocella, a complete chronology of his roles, and extensive annotated captions, Baryshnikov in Black and White is the definitive book on his remarkable career in the West.
Download or read book Private View written by John Fraser and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1992-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and lavishly illustrated volume is the only intimate behind-the-scenes book about Mikhail Baryshnikov's leadership of one of the world's premier dance companies. Fraser provides insight into the spirit and mood of the company during Mikhail's directorship and the reasons for his sudden resignation.
Download or read book B Plus written by Michael Langlois and published by Epigraph Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: B Plus: Dancing for Mikhail Baryshnikov at American Ballet Theatre is an intimate look at the upper echelons of the dance world as it appeared to a young man who made it to the top of his profession only to discover a vast plateau filled with dancers whose talents and ambitions were often superior to his own.
Download or read book Balletmaster written by Moira Shearer and published by New York : Putnam. This book was released on 1987 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was their sole encounter, but the sheer force and élan of Balanchine's personality, technique and genius held the young ballerina in total thrall from that day to this. As Moira Shearer observed his works over the years, she determined to set down Balanchine's extraordinary career and tempestuous life from a dancer's perspective. She researched his Russian youth, and the dazzling Diaghilev and continental years. She talked with key colleagues, ex-wives and impresarios as living background to her account of his hard-won triumphs with the New York City Ballet as the most innovative and important choreographer of this century. The story of Balanchine's life is here is full, the romantic destructiveness and willfulness along with the genius, but it is informal and distillate rather than compendious.
Download or read book Footnotes written by Frank Augustyn and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the years of training and hard work involved in becoming a ballet dancer and the dedication and expertise needed to dance the lead roles in famous ballets such as Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake.
Book Synopsis Dancing on My Grave by : Gelsey Kirkland
Download or read book Dancing on My Grave written by Gelsey Kirkland and published by John Curley & Assoc. This book was released on 1986 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The candid self-portrait of one of America's most famous ballerinas and a story of the high-pressure world of dance that brought the acclaimed dancer to a nightmare world of illness, drug addiction, and suicidal despair
Book Synopsis Baryshnikov in Black and White by : Mikhail Baryshnikov
Download or read book Baryshnikov in Black and White written by Mikhail Baryshnikov and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Download or read book B Plus written by Michael Langlois and published by Epigraph Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: B Plus: Dancing for Mikhail Baryshnikov at American Ballet Theatre is an intimate look at the upper echelons of the dance world as it appeared to a young man who made it to the top of his profession only to discover a vast plateau filled with dancers whose talents and ambitions were often superior to his own.
Download or read book Mr. B written by Jennifer Homans and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • “A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life.”—MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography and the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Baillie Gifford Prize Based on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man The New York Times called “the Shakespeare of dancing”—from the bestselling author of Apollo’s Angels New York Times Editors’ Choice • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, Oprah Daily Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century—The New York Times called him “the Shakespeare of dancing.” His radical approach to choreography—and life—reinvented the art of ballet and made him a legend. Written with enormous style and artistry, and based on more than one hundred interviews and research in archives across Russia, Europe, and the Americas, Mr. B carries us through Balanchine’s tumultuous and high-pitched life story and into the making of his extraordinary dances. Balanchine’s life intersected with some of the biggest historical events of his century. Born in Russia under the last czar, Balanchine experienced the upheavals of World War I, the Russian Revolution, exile, World War II, and the Cold War. A co-founder of the New York City Ballet, he pressed ballet in America to the forefront of modernism and made it a popular art. None of this was easy, and we see his loneliness and failures, his five marriages—all to dancers—and many loves. We follow his bouts of ill health and spiritual crises, and learn of his profound musical skills and sensibility and his immense determination to make some of the most glorious, strange, and beautiful dances ever to grace the modern stage. With full access to Balanchine’s papers and many of his dancers, Jennifer Homans, the dance critic for The New Yorker and a former dancer herself, has spent more than a decade researching Balanchine’s life and times to write a vast history of the twentieth century through the lens of one of its greatest artists: the definitive biography of the man his dancers called Mr. B.
Book Synopsis Apollo's Angels by : Jennifer Homans
Download or read book Apollo's Angels written by Jennifer Homans and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history of ballet ever written—is a groundbreaking work. From ballet’s origins in the Renaissance and the codification of its basic steps and positions under France’s Louis XIV (himself an avid dancer), the art form wound its way through the courts of Europe, from Paris and Milan to Vienna and St. Petersburg. In the twentieth century, émigré dancers taught their art to a generation in the United States and in Western Europe, setting off a new and radical transformation of dance. Jennifer Homans, a historian, critic, and former professional ballerina, wields a knowledge of dance born of dedicated practice. Her admiration and love for the ballet, as Entertainment Weekly notes, brings “a dancer’s grace and sure-footed agility to the page.”
