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Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today

Author : Simon Morrison
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0871408309
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today written by Simon Morrison and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “incredibly rich” (New York Times) definitive history of the Bolshoi Ballet, visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage. A critical triumph, Simon Morrison’s “sweeping and authoritative” (Guardian) work, Bolshoi Confidential, details the Bolshoi Ballet’s magnificent history from its earliest tumults to recent scandals. On January 17, 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid into the face of the artistic director, making international headlines. A lead soloist, enraged by institutional power struggles, later confessed to masterminding the crime. Morrison gives the shocking violence context, describing the ballet as a crucible of art and politics beginning with the disreputable inception of the theater in 1776, through the era of imperial rule, the chaos of revolution, the oppressive Soviet years, and the Bolshoi’s recent $680 million renovation. With vibrant detail including “sex scandals, double-suicide pacts, bribery, arson, executions, prostitution rings, embezzlement, starving orphans, [and] dead cats in lieu of flowers” (New Republic), Morrison makes clear that the history of the Bolshoi Ballet mirrors that of Russia itself.

The Bolshoi

Author : Boris Pokrovskiĭ
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Bolshoi written by Boris Pokrovskiĭ and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1979 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the history of the theatre and includes a summary of 21 operas and 18 ballets produced there.

The Official Bolshoi Ballet Book of Swan Lake

Author : I︠U︡riĭ Nikolaevich Grigorovich
Publisher : TFH Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Official Bolshoi Ballet Book of Swan Lake written by I︠U︡riĭ Nikolaevich Grigorovich and published by TFH Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American–Soviet Cultural Diplomacy

Author : Cadra Peterson McDaniel
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739199315
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book American–Soviet Cultural Diplomacy written by Cadra Peterson McDaniel and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American–Soviet Cultural Diplomacy: The Bolshoi Ballet’s American Premiere is the first full-length examination of a Soviet cultural diplomatic effort. Following the signing of an American-Soviet cultural exchange agreement in the late 1950s, Soviet officials resolved to utilize the Bolshoi Ballet’s planned 1959 American tour to awe audiences with Soviet choreographers’ great accomplishments and Soviet performers’ superb abilities. Relying on extensive research, Cadra Peterson McDaniel examines whether the objectives behind Soviet cultural exchange and the specific aims of the Bolshoi Ballet’s 1959 American tour provided evidence of a thaw in American-Soviet relations. Interwoven throughout this study is an examination of the Soviets’ competing efforts to create ballets encapsulating Communist ideas while simultaneously reinterpreting pre-revolutionary ballets so that these works were ideologically acceptable. McDaniel investigates the rationale behind the creation of the Bolshoi’s repertoire and the Soviet leadership’s objectives and interpretation of the tour’s success as well as American response to the tour. The repertoire included the four ballets, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Giselle, and The Stone Flower, and two Highlights Programs, which included excerpts from various pre- and post-revolutionary ballets, operas, and dance suites. How the Americans and the Soviets understood the Bolshoi’s success provides insight into how each side conceptualized the role of the arts in society and in political transformation. American–Soviet Cultural Diplomacy: The Bolshoi Ballet’s American Premiere demonstrates the ballet’s role in Soviet foreign policy, a shift to "artful warfare," and thus emphasizes the significance of studying cultural exchange as a key aspect of Soviet foreign policy and analyzes the continued importance of the arts in twenty-first century Russian politics.

The Authorized Bolshoi Ballet Book of The Golden Age

Author : I︠U︡riĭ Nikolaevich Grigorovich
Publisher : TFH Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Authorized Bolshoi Ballet Book of The Golden Age written by I︠U︡riĭ Nikolaevich Grigorovich and published by TFH Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Body of Work

Author : David Hallberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476771170
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book A Body of Work written by David Hallberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as “the most exciting male dancer in the western world,” presents a look at his artistic life—up to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating injury that almost cost him his career. Beginning with his real-life Billy Elliot childhood—an all-American story marred by intense bullying—and culminating in his hard-won comeback, Hallberg’s “moving and intelligent” (Daniel Mendelsohn) memoir dives deep into life as an artist as he wrestles with ego, pushes the limits of his body, and searches for ecstatic perfection and fulfillment as one of the world’s most acclaimed ballet dancers. Rich in detail ballet fans will adore, Hallberg presents an “unsparing…inside look” (The New York Times) and also reflects on universal and relatable themes like inspiration, self-doubt, and perfectionism as he takes you into daily classes, rigorous rehearsals, and triumphant performances, searching for new interpretations of ballet’s greatest roles. He reveals the loneliness he felt as a teenager leaving America to join the Paris Opera Ballet School, the ambition he had to tame as a new member of American Ballet Theatre, and the reasons behind his headline-grabbing decision to be the first American to join the top rank of Bolshoi Ballet, tendered by the Artistic Director who would later be the victim of a vicious acid attack. Then, as Hallberg performed throughout the world at the peak of his abilities, he suffered a crippling ankle injury and botched surgery leading to an agonizing retreat from ballet and an honest reexamination of his entire life. Combining his powers of observation and memory with emotional honesty and artistic insight, Hallberg has written a great ballet memoir and an intimate portrait of an artist in all his vulnerability, passion, and wisdom. “Candid and engrossing” (The Washington Post), A Body of Work is a memoir “for everyone with a heart” (DC Metro Theater Arts).

Maximova & Vasiliev at the Bolshoi

Author : Roberta Lazzarini
Publisher : Princeton Book Company Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maximova & Vasiliev at the Bolshoi written by Roberta Lazzarini and published by Princeton Book Company Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy

Author : Elizabeth Kiem
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616952644
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy written by Elizabeth Kiem and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely YA thriller—part John Le Carré and part The Americans—about a Bolshoi ballerina trapped by family secrets and a legacy of espionage. The Bolshoi Saga: Marina Marina is born into privilege. A talented young dancer with Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet at the height of the Cold War, she seems destined to follow in the footsteps of her mother Svetlana, a Soviet Artist of the People. But when Svetlana disappears without explanation, Marina and her father have to get out. Fast. They defect to America, hoping they’ve escaped Russia’s secret police, hoping they can make a fresh start in New York. Instead they discover the web of intrigue around Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach is as tangled as the one they left behind.

Ballet in the Cold War

Author : Anne Searcy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190945109
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Ballet in the Cold War written by Anne Searcy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the Cold War, the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union developed cultural exchange programs, in which they sent performing artists abroad in order to generate goodwill for their countries. Ballet companies were frequently called on to serve in these programs, particularly in the direct Soviet-American exchange. This book analyzes four of the early ballet exchange tours, demonstrating how this series of encounters changed both geopolitical relations and the history of dance. The ballet tours were enormously popular. Performances functioned as an important symbolic meeting point for Soviet and American officials, creating goodwill and normalizing relations between the two countries in an era when nuclear conflict was a real threat. At the same time, Soviet and American audiences did not understand ballet in the same way. As American companies toured in the Soviet Union and vice-versa, audiences saw the performances through the lens of their own local aesthetics. Ballet in the Cold War introduces the concept of transliteration to understand this process, showing how much power viewers wielded in the exchange and explaining how the dynamics of the Cold War continue to shape ballet today"--

The Guinness Who's who of Indie and New Wave Music

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Guinness Who's who of Indie and New Wave Music written by Colin Larkin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Swans of the Kremlin

Author : Christina Ezrahi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822978075
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Swans of the Kremlin written by Christina Ezrahi and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical ballet was perhaps the most visible symbol of aristocratic culture and its isolation from the rest of Russian society under the tsars. In the wake of the October Revolution, ballet, like all of the arts, fell under the auspices of the Soviet authorities. In light of these events, many feared that the imperial ballet troupes would be disbanded. Instead, the Soviets attempted to mold the former imperial ballet to suit their revolutionary cultural agenda and employ it to reeducate the masses. As Christina Ezrahi's groundbreaking study reveals, they were far from successful in this ambitious effort to gain complete control over art. Swans of the Kremlin offers a fascinating glimpse at the collision of art and politics during the volatile first fifty years of the Soviet period. Ezrahi shows how the producers and performers of Russia's two major troupes, the Mariinsky (later Kirov) and the Bolshoi, quietly but effectively resisted Soviet cultural hegemony during this period. Despite all controls put on them, they managed to maintain the classical forms and traditions of their rich artistic past and to further develop their art form. These aesthetic and professional standards proved to be the power behind the ballet's worldwide appeal. The troupes soon became the showpiece of Soviet cultural achievement, as they captivated Western audiences during the Cold War period. Based on her extensive research into official archives, and personal interviews with many of the artists and staff, Ezrahi presents the first-ever account of the inner workings of these famed ballet troupes during the Soviet era. She follows their struggles in the postrevolutionary period, their peak during the golden age of the 1950s and 1960s, and concludes with their monumental productions staged to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the revolution in 1968.

I, Maya Plisetskaya

Author : Majâ Mihajlovna Pliseckaâ
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300088571
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book I, Maya Plisetskaya written by Majâ Mihajlovna Pliseckaâ and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya Plisetskaya rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet after an early life filled with tragedy. Here Plisetskaya reflects on her personal and professional odyssey presenting the life of a Soviet artist from the 1930s to 1990s.

Landmarks of Russian Architect

Author : William Craft Brumfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317973259
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Landmarks of Russian Architect written by William Craft Brumfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Russian architecture, this volume is designed for students and other readers wishing to gain an understanding of the subject.

The Bolshoi Ballet

Author :
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Bolshoi Ballet written by and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and brief commentary on 6 ballets and 20 performers.

The Bolshoi Ballet

Author : Viktor Vladimirovich Vanslov
Publisher : TFH Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bolshoi Ballet written by Viktor Vladimirovich Vanslov and published by TFH Publications. This book was released on 1984 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bolshoi Ballet School

Author : Sophia N. Golovkina
Publisher : TFH Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Bolshoi Ballet School written by Sophia N. Golovkina and published by TFH Publications. This book was released on 1987 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Secret Keeper

Author : Mitali Perkins
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0375891870
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Secret Keeper written by Mitali Perkins and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From National Book Award finalist, Mitali Perkins, comes a dramatic tale about a displaced Indian family in the 1970s. When Asha’s father loses his job and leaves India to look for work in America, Asha Gupta, her older sister, Reet, and their mother must wait with Baba’s brother and his family, as well as their grandmother, in Calcutta. Uncle is welcoming, but in a country steeped in tradition, the three women must abide by his decisions. Asha knows this is temporary—just until Baba sends for them. But with scant savings and time passing, the tension builds: Ma, prone to spells of sadness, finds it hard to submit to her mother- and sister-in-law; Reet’s beauty attracts unwanted marriage proposals; and Asha's promise to take care of Ma and Reet leads to impulsive behavior. Asha’s only solace is her rooftop hideaway, where she pours her heart out in her diary, and where she begins a clandestine friendship with Jay Sen, the boy next door—against the rules of the house. Asha can hardly believe that she, and not Reet, is the object of Jay’s attention. But when tragedy strikes, Asha must make a painful choice that will change their lives forever “Well-developed characters, funny dialogue, and the authentic depiction of spunky Asha's longing for romance and female self-determination, set in a culture that restrains women's choices, make this book an attractive pick.”—School Library Journal "Achingly realistic."—Kirkus "An intimate and absorbing drama.”—Publisher's Weekly "Heartbreaking and hopeful." —ALA Booklist