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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Col. W. de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith Chazin-Bennahum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199830479
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Rene Blum and The Ballets Russes written by Judith Chazin-Bennahum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: René Blum and the Ballets Russes documents the life of the enigmatic and brilliant writer and producer who resurrected the Ballets Russes after Diaghilev died. Based on a treasure trove of previously undiscovered letters and documents, the book not only tells the poignant story of Blum's life, but also illustrates the central role Blum played in the development of dance in the United States. Indeed, Blum's efforts to save his ballet company eventually helped to bring many of the world's greatest dancers and choreographers--among them Fokine, Balanchine, and Nijinska--to American ballet stages.
Author : Victoria Tennant
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022618630X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo written by Victoria Tennant and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s and ’40s, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo toured the United States and the world, introducing many to ballet as an art form, while spreading the enduring image of the ballerina as an embodiment of feminine grace and sophistication. This sumptuous, illustrated history tells the story of the rise of modern ballet and its popularity through the life story of one of ballet’s most glamorous stars, Irina Baronova (1919–2008), prima ballerina for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and later for Ballet Theatre in New York. Drawing on letters, correspondence, oral histories, and interviews, Baronova’s daughter, the actress Victoria Tennant, warmly recounts Baronova’s dramatic life, from her earliest aspirations to her grueling time on tour to her later years in Australia as a pioneer of the art. She begins with the Baronov family’s flight from Russia during the Revolution, which led them to Romania and later Paris, where at the age of thirteen, Baronova became a star, chosen by the legendary George Balanchine to join the Ballets Russes, where she danced the lead in Swan Lake. Tennant provides an intimate account of Baronova’s life as a dancer and rare behind-the-scenes stories of life on the road with the stars of the company. Spectacular photographs, a mix of archival images and family snapshots, offer many rare views of rehearsals, costumes, set designs, and the dancers themselves both at their most dazzling and in their most everyday. The story of Irina Baronova is also the story of the rise of ballet in America thanks to the Ballets Russes, who brought the magisterial beauty and star power of dance to big cities and small towns alike. Irina Baronova and the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo offers a unique perspective on this history, sure to be treasured by dance patrons and aspiring stars.
Author : Kathrine Sorley Walker
Publisher : Dance Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781852731373
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (313 download)
Download or read book De Basil's Ballets Russes written by Kathrine Sorley Walker and published by Dance Books Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author details the story of Colonel W. de Basil's company of Russian ballet dancers who kept alive the heritage of the Russian ballet for 20 years.
Author : Michael Meylac
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178673205X
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes written by Michael Meylac and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century. Inspired by the unique vision of their founder Sergei Diaghilev, the company gained a large international following. In the mid-twentieth century - during the tumultuous years of World War II and the Cold War - the Ballets Russes companies kept the spirit and traditions of Russian ballet alive in the West, touring extensively in America, Europe and Australia. This important new book uncovers previously-unseen interviews and provides insights into the lives of the great figures of the age - from the dancers Anna Pavlova and Alicia Markova to the choreographers Leonide Massine, George Balanchine and Anton Dolin. The dancers' own words reveal what life was really like for the stars of the Ballets Russes and provide fascinating new insights into one of the most vibrant and creative groups of artists of the modern age.
Author : Cyril William Beaumont
Publisher : London : C. W. Beaumont
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Monte Carlo Russian Ballet (Les Ballets Russes Du Col. W. de Basil) written by Cyril William Beaumont and published by London : C. W. Beaumont. This book was released on 1934 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathrine Sorley Walker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book De Basil's Ballets Russes written by Kathrine Sorley Walker and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victoria Tennant
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616716X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo written by Victoria Tennant and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on letters, correspondence, oral histories, and interviews, Baronova's daughter, the actress Victoria Tennant, ... recounts Baronova's dramatic life, from her earliest aspirations to her grueling time on tour to her later years in Australia as a pioneer of the art"--Dust jacket flap.
Author : Alexandra Danilova
Publisher : Fromm International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Choura written by Alexandra Danilova and published by Fromm International. This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irina Baronova
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742282032
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Irina written by Irina Baronova and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a turbulent beginning in Russia to world fame and beyond, this is the vivid, moving story of Irina Baronova's extraordinary life. Irina was born into a privileged family, whose world was changed forever by the Bolsheviks. They fled Russia to poverty in Bucharest, but Irina's mother was determined that her daughter learn ballet. Her first lessons were taken with the kitchen table as a barre. Her family struggled to take Irina to Paris, where she made her debut, aged eleven, with the Paris Opera. Spotted by the legendary choreographer George Balanchine, she joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. She quickly rose to fame as one the three 'Baby Ballerinas' and toured the world, working with a dazzling array of great names. Later Irina starred in films, danced with American Ballet Theatre and appeared in plays. But when she met Cecil Tennant, theatrical agent to stars such as Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, Irina had to choose between the limelight and life as a wife and mother . . .
Author : Robert Bell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Ballets Russes written by Robert Bell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ballets Russes has engaged people for 100 years, ever since Russian-born Sergei Diaghilev created this dynamic avant-garde company. Diaghilev brought together some of the most important visual artists of the 20th century - Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Andr Derain, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Georges Braque, Giorgio de Chirico, Natalia Gonchorova and Mikhail Larionov and more - who worked as costume and stage designers with composers such as Igor Stravinky, choreographers such as Michel Fokine, and dancers such as Vaslav Nijinsky, infusing new life and creative energy into the performing arts of the time. Premiering in Paris, the Ballets Russes, for the brief period of its existence (1909 - 29), created exotic, extravagant, and charming theatrical spectacle but also critical discussion and technical innovation, as well as exuding glamour - and often creating scandal - wherever it appeared. The costumes featured in this book are drawn entirely from the National Gallery of Australia's world-renowned collection of Ballets Russes costumes and ephemera. Through the costumes, drawings, programs and posters, the visual spectacle of the Ballets Russes is brought back into view for a contemporary audience to appreciate the revolution it was and the ongoing influence it continues to have today. This book is a must for anyone interested in the performing arts, the intersection of art and design, and costume and fashion.
Author : Vicente García-Márquez
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Massine written by Vicente García-Márquez and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1995 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For twenty-five years after his Paris debut in 1914, Leonide Massine (1895-1979) was indisputably the premier male dancer and chief choreographer of Europe. Now, just as revivals of his ballets are reconfirming his status, historian Vicente Garcia-Marquez gives us a well-rounded, definitive biography that places Massine firmly in the mainstream of twentieth-century cultural history." "Onstage, he was widely praised for indelible performances in roles he created for himself (Joseph in The Legend of Joseph, the Miller in Le Tricorne, and the Chinese Conjuror in Parade are only a few) and as the choreographer of other perennial repertory favorites (such as Le Beau Danube, Gaite parisienne, Scuola di ballo). In the 1930s his choreography took an innovative and controversial turn with the creation of Les Presages, Choreartium (both recently revived in France and America), and Symphonie fantastique - ballets whose grandiose combination of symphonic music, metaphysical scenarios, and spectacularly complex movement patterns and configurations polarized the critics and the public." "Massine's collaborations with the major creative spirits of our time - including Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Falla, Cocteau, Picasso, Matisse, Miro, and Dali - were integral to his life and art, and each of these giants has a role in this book. So too does Michael Powell, the British filmmaker who, fortunately for us, recorded some of Massine's most brilliant characterizations, in The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffmann."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : S. L. Grigoriev
Publisher : Dance Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781852731328
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (313 download)
Download or read book The Diaghilev Ballet 1909 - 1929 written by S. L. Grigoriev and published by Dance Books Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diaghilev Ballet existed from 1909 to 1929; and from its beginningto its end Serge Grigoriev acted as regisseur-that is to say he was responsible for every aspect of the venture save its finance. In theearly 1950s he began reading back among the "logs" of the Ballet'smany seasons, and decided that he would write what no one elsecould write-the story of Diaghilev's extraordinary enterprise as seenby one of its major participants. His book offers a chronology of the Ballet's history, beginning withthe first preparations in St. Petersburg, through triumphs and setbacks in Paris, disaster in the United States, revolution in Portugal, tothe last phase when, cut off from Russia, the Ballet found an official home in Monte Carlo. Almost without exception, the leading European practitioners of music and painting came to collaborate with Diaghilev. Add the names of the dancers, and virtually all the famous figures in theartistic world of the period find a place in Grigoriev's record. Of Diaghilev himself-the strange genius behind this fabulous adventure, the creative artist who could only create in collaboration with dancer-choreographers-a vivid portrait emerges. He underwent every kind of fortune, good and bad, deserved andundeserved, finally refusing to regard himself as a sick man, gambling with death and losing his stake.
Author : Claude Summers
Publisher : Cleis Press Start
ISBN 13 : 1573448753
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (734 download)
Download or read book The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, and Musical Theater written by Claude Summers and published by Cleis Press Start. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aficionados of music, dance, opera, and musical theater will relish this volume featuring over 200 articles showcasing composers, singers, musicians, dancers, and choreographers across eras and styles. Read about Hildegard of Bingen, whose Symphonia expressed both spiritual and physical desire for the Virgin Mary, and George Frideric Handel, who not only created roles for castrati but was behind the Venetian opera's preoccupations with gender ambiguity. Discover Alban Berg’s Lulu, opera’s first openly lesbian character. And don’t forget Kiss Me Kate, the hit 1948 Broadway musical: written by Cole Porter, married though openly gay; directed by John C. Wilson, Noël Coward's ex-lover; and featuring Harold Lang, who had affairs with Leonard Bernstein and Gore Vidal. No single volume has ever achieved the breadth of this scholarly yet eminently readable compendium. It includes overviews of genres as well as fascinating biographical entries on hundreds of figures such as Peter Tchaikovsky, Maurice Ravel, Sergei Diaghilev, Bessie Smith, Aaron Copland, Stephen Sondheim, Alvin Ailey, Rufus Wainwright, and Ani DiFranco.
Author : Leo Lerman
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307495744
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Grand Surprise written by Leo Lerman and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable life and a remarkable voice emerge from the journals, letters, and memoirs of Leo Lerman: writer, critic, editor at Condé Nast, and man about town at the center of New York’s artistic and social circles from the 1940s until his death in 1994. Lerman’s contributions to the world of the arts were large and varied: he wrote on theater, dance, music, art, books, and movies for publications as diverse as Mademoiselle and The New York Times. He was features editor at Vogue and editor in chief of Vanity Fair. He launched careers and trends, exposing the American public to new talents, fashions, and ideas. He was a legendary party host as well, counting Marlene Dietrich, Maria Callas, and Truman Capote among his intimates, and celebrities like Cary Grant, Jackie Onassis, Isak Dinesen, and Margot Fonteyn as part of his larger circle. But his personal accounts and correspondence reveal him also as having an unusually rich and complex private life, mourning the cultivated émigré world of 1930s and 1940s New York City, reflecting on being Jewish and an openly homosexual man, and intimately evoking his two most important lifelong relationships. From a man whose literary icon was Marcel Proust comes an unparalleled social and emotional history. With eloquence, insight, and wit, he filled his journals and letters with acute assessments, gossip, and priceless anecdotes while inimitably recording both our larger cultural history and his own moving private story.
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Total Pages : 1118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Cleveland Plain Dealer Index written by United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Lee
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415942577
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Ballet in Western Culture written by Carol Lee and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the development of ballet from the origins of dance through the 20th century.
