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Author : Rick Anthony Simas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book From John Durang to George Balanchine written by Rick Anthony Simas and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Clifford
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813072018
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Balanchine's Apprentice written by John Clifford and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A talented young dancer and his brilliant teacher In this long-awaited memoir, dancer and choreographer John Clifford offers a highly personal look inside the day-to-day operations of the New York City Ballet and its creative mastermind, George Balanchine. Balanchine’s Apprentice is the story of Clifford—an exceptionally talented artist—and the guiding inspiration for his life’s work in dance. Growing up in Hollywood with parents in show business, Clifford acted in television productions such as The Danny Kaye Show, The Dinah Shore Show, and Death Valley Days. He recalls the beginning of his obsession with ballet: At age 11 he was cast as the Prince in a touring production of The Nutcracker. The director was none other than the legendary Balanchine, who would eventually invite Clifford to New York City and shape his career as both a mentor and artistic example. During his dazzling tenure with the New York City Ballet, Clifford danced the lead in 47 works, several created for him by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and others. He partnered famous ballerinas including Gelsey Kirkland and Allegra Kent. He choreographed eight ballets for the company, his first at age 20. He performed in Russia, Germany, France, and Canada. Afterward, he returned to the West Coast to found the Los Angeles Ballet, where he continued to innovate based on the Balanchine technique. In this book, Clifford provides firsthand insight into Balanchine’s relationships with his dancers, including Suzanne Farrell. Examining his own attachment to his charismatic teacher, Clifford explores questions of creative influence and integrity. His memoir is a portrait of a young dancer who learned and worked at lightning speed, who pursued the calls of art and genius on both coasts of America and around the world.
Author : Richard Buckle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book George Balanchine written by Richard Buckle and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biografie van de oorspronkelijk Russische choreograaf.
Author : Moira Shearer
Publisher : New York : Putnam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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.
Author : Brian Seibert
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404206410
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)
Download or read book George Balanchine written by Brian Seibert and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life and accomplishments of the choreographer who made over four hundred dance works and is considered to be the most important ballet choreographer of the twentieth century.
Author : Cassie Abate
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350193364
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Art and Practice of Musical Theatre Choreography written by Cassie Abate and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does a musical theatre choreographer actually do? They just 'make up the steps', right? This book firstly debunks the misunderstandings around what musical theatre choreographers actually do, demonstrating their need to have an in-depth understanding of storytelling, music theory, performance practices and plot structure in order to create movement that enhances and enlivens the musical. Secondly, it equips the musical theatre choreographer with all the tools needed to create nuanced, informed and inspired movement for productions, through structured activities that build specific skills (such as 'notating the script' and 'scoring the score'). Traditionally, this training has been something of a series of secrets, passed from mentor to apprentice. The author demystifies the process to make the previously undisclosed “tricks of the trade” accessible to all choreographers, everywhere. Covering the entire process of choreographing a musical from the first script reading to the final curtain call, this book makes case for the absolute integrity of the choreographer to any musical theatre production and sets out the theoretical principles of choreography alongside the practical application during every step of the production process.
Author : Jennifer Homans
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812984781
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Mr. B written by Jennifer Homans and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2023-11-07 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, and the Kirkus Prize • Longlisted for 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.
Author : Kimberly Wylie
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638542912
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (385 download)
Download or read book The Life and Legacy of George Balanchine written by Kimberly Wylie and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-09-10 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2003 in the subject Biographies, University of Phoenix, language: English, abstract: By the time of George Balanchine’s untimely passing on April 30th, 1983, this 20th century master of choreography in ballet had created more than 400 works. His name is celebrated in the art world, much as Picasso or Stravinsky. Balanchine was arguably the most influential person in ballet, and his legacy continues to benefit the world of ballet long after his death.
Author : George Balanchine
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Choreography by George Balanchine written by George Balanchine and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1984 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Kattner
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813057663
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Finding Balanchine's Lost Ballets written by Elizabeth Kattner and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since George Balanchine arrived on the American dance scene in 1933, his revolutionary, fleet-footed repertoire has been immortalized in the ballet canon. Yet most of the works he created in Russia as a budding choreographer have been lost to history—until now. In the first book to focus exclusively on Balanchine’s Russian ballets, Elizabeth Kattner offers new insights into the artistic evolution of a legend through her reconstruction of his first group ballet, Funeral March. Drawing on more than a decade of research conducted in archives in the United States and Europe, Kattner synthesizes textual descriptions, photographs, musical scores, and the comparative study of other early Balanchine ballets in order to re-create this forgotten work. By interpreting and building upon these historical findings in the studio and in performance, this project enables dance history to be experienced kinesthetically. Addressing the controversy surrounding whether unrecorded dances should be reconstructed in the first place, Kattner meticulously describes her research methodologies, providing a valuable resource for other scholars seeking to revive history in this way. Finding Balanchine’s Lost Ballets enriches our understanding of Balanchine’s development as a choreographer through its ambitious, original approach to the subject. Kattner argues for the importance of dance reconstruction, when correctly approached, as a tool for reimagining the past and charting the future possibilities of dance history research.
Author : George Balanchine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780863790676
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Balanchine's Festival of Ballet written by George Balanchine and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Balanchine's 'Festival of Ballet' is a classic reference work giving scene-by-scene descriptions of 404 classic and contemporary ballet. This concise two-volume edition contains the complete commentary, and a selection of Balanchine's essays, among them 'How to Enjoy Ballet' and 'How I Became a Dancer', are included in Volume II." -- Back cover.
Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060750707
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)
Download or read book George Balanchine written by Robert Gottlieb and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Eminent Lives Series, this biography, written by the gifted author Robert Gottlieb, will describe the life of the dynamic George Balanchine, the foremost contemporary choreographer in ballet. Timed to coincide with the 2004 centenary of the artist's birth. The life and achievement of the great choreographer who both summed up everything that proceeded him in ballet, and extended the art form into radical yet inevitable new paths. Leaving Revolutionary Russia in 1924 (he was 20), he joined Serge Diaghilev's famous Ballets Russes, where he created his first enduring masterpiece, Apollo, cementing his lifelong collaboration with Stravinsky. In 1933 he arrived in America to found a school and a company, but the company as we know it – The New York City Ballet – didn't emerge until 1948. Meanwhile, he made ballets wherever opportunity allowed, while choreographing Broadway shows (four for Rodgers and Hart), movies (The Goldwyn Follies), even the circus – a ballet for elephants with a score by Stravinsky. By the time of his death, in 1983, he had been recognized as a member of the triad of the greatest modern masters, alongside Picasso and Stravinsky. Balanchine was married many times, always to outstanding ballerinas, but his truest muse always remained Terpsichore, the Muse of Dance.
Author : Соломон Волков
Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Balanchine's Tchaikovsky written by Соломон Волков and published by New York : Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1985 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a special value to this book which none other has, namely the opportunity for two Russians with a specialized knowledge of Tchaikovsky to speak to each other on the same ground. Balanchine, as always when speaking his native tongue, expresses himself more freely here than in English. As a result, he touches upon many points that are of particular interest to his ballet public.
Author : George Balanchine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974761800
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book By George Balanchine written by George Balanchine and published by . This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 90 quotes by George Balanchine
Author : Toni Bentley
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0593316398
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Serenade written by Toni Bentley and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toni Bentley, a dancer for George Balanchine, the greatest ballet maker of the 20th century, tells the story of Serenade, his iconic masterpiece, and what it was like to dance—and live—in his world at New York City Ballet during its legendary era. "Reading Bentley's Serenade made me feel as alive as I felt on the stage the moment that I fell in love with ballet…. [A] delicate balance of personal memoir, rarefied elegance, history of the arts and pure human interest.”—Misty Copeland, New York Times Book Review "[A] unique document about one of the greatest ballets ever created…. A beautiful read”—Mikhail Baryshnikov At age seventeen, Toni Bentley was chosen by Balanchine, then in his final years, to join the New York City Ballet. From both backstage and onstage, she carries us through the serendipitous history and physical intricacies and demands of Serenade: its dazzling opening, with seventeen women in a double-diamond pattern; its radical, even jazzy, use of the highly refined language that is ballet; its place in the choreographer’s own dramatic story of his immigration to the United States from Soviet Russia; its mystical—and literal—embodiment of the tradition of classical ballet in just thirty-three minutes. Bentley takes us inside the rarefied, intense, and thrilling world Balanchine created through his lifelong devotion to celebrating and expanding female beauty and strength—a world that, inevitably, passed upon his death. An intimate elegy to grace and loss and to the imprint of a towering artist and his transcendent creation on Bentley’s own life, Serenade: A Balanchine Story is a rich narrative by a dynamic artist about the nature of art itself at its most ephemeral and glorious.
Author : Francis Mason
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book I Remember Balanchine written by Francis Mason and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various friends and associates of Balanchine recall his impact upon their lives.
Author : Eleni Hofmeister
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134354010
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Balanchine written by Eleni Hofmeister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed portrait of George Balanchine presents new approaches to his choreography. The book examines Balanchine from diverse perspectives and discusses unexplored aspects of his work, such as the notion of Balanchine as an architect, and his experiments with the African-American dance tradition. The articles complement and reinforce each other, taking interdisciplinary perspectives and encouraging a reexamination of, and expansion of, existing opinions.
