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Author Volynskiĭ, A. L., 1863-1926.

Title Ballet's magic kingdom : selected writings on dance in Russia, 1911-1925 / Akim Volynsky ; translated, edited, and with an introduction and notes by Stanley J. Rabinowitz
Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Univ. Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xliii, 288 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction: Akim Volynsky and His Writings on Dance -- Part 1. Reviews and Articles -- Dance as a Solemn Ritual (1911) -- Coppélia (1911) -- Tamara Karsavina: The Trial of Damis -- The Nutcracker (1911) -- Mathilda Kshesinskaya: Swan Lake (1911) -- Schumann, Ballet, and Fokine (1912) -- Eunice and Chopiniana (1912) -- Errors of Creation: On Papillons and Islamey (1912) -- The Little Dove: Harlequinade (1912) -- The Russian Dance: Die Puppenfee (1912) -- Raymonda (1912) -- Coppélia (1912) -- Vaganova's Variation (1912) -- The Tsar Maiden: A New Production of The Little Humpbacked Horse (1912) -- A Circle of Immovable Stars: Alexander Gorsky and Mikhail Fokine (1913) -- Isadora Duncan: The Last Word (1913) -- Anna Pavlova (1913) -- Pavlova's Farewell Performance: La Bayadère (1913) -- A Kaleidoscope of Attire: Still More on Konstantin Korovin (1914) -- Elegy (1915) -- Mikhail Fokine: Some Lines Toward a Polemic (1915) -- La Jota Aragonese (1916) -- My Miniatures: Swan Lake (1920) -- Marius Petipa's La Bayadère (1922) -- The End of the Season: Lida Ivanova (1922) -- Two Schools of Classical Dance: Sleeping Beauty (1922) -- Stravinsky's Ballets (1922) -- The Birth of Apollo (1923) -- What Will Ballet Live By? (1923) -- A Wretched Housepainter: The Nutcracker (1923) -- The Weeping Spirit (1923) -- The Innovator: Mikhail Fokine (1923) -- Don Quixote (1923) -- Classical Attire (1923) -- Naked, Barefoot, and Beltless (1923) -- Swan Lake: The Swan in Music (1923) -- Sleeping Beauty (1923) -- Swan Lake: The Swan in Motion (1924) -- Lida Ivanova (1924) -- Adrienne Lecouvreur (1924) -- Tamara Karsavina (1924) -- Part 2. The Book of Exaltations: The ABCs of Classical Dance (1925) -- Principles of Classical Dance -- Choreography -- Ballet -- Verticality -- The Toes -- Turnout -- Exposing the Essence -- Croisé and Effacé -- Elevation -- The Nature of Classical Dance -- The Arms -- Music -- Features and Forms -- Positions -- Plié -- Battements -- Rond de Jambe -- The Exercise's Finale -- In the Center -- Coupé -- Gliding Movements -- Fouetté -- Straight and Crooked Lines -- Attitude and Arabesque -- Pirouette -- En Tournant The Clock's Chimes -- Postscript -- Allegro -- Leap, Jump, Flight -- Earth and Sky -- Beats -- Sissonne (Sisol) -- Entrechat -- The Line Upward -- Technique -- Pas de Basque -- Summa summarum -- A Bird's-Eye View -- Male Dancing: A Synthesis -- Acrobatism -- The Ballet Master -- Myth and Fairy Tale -- The Soul's Reserves -- The Ballet Libretto -- The Danseur -- The Corps de Ballet -- Mime -- Vis medicatrix (Strength, the Healer) -- Glossary of Names -- Index
Summary The first translation of the writings of Akim Volynsky, the greatest ballet authority of early twentieth-century Russia Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book, the first English edition of his provocative and influential writings, provides a striking look at life inside the world of Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history. Stanley J. Rabinowitz selects and translates forty of Volynsky's articles--vivid, eyewitness accounts that sparkle with details about the careers and personalities of such dance luminaries as Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Fokine, Tamara Karsavina, and George Balanchine, at that time a young dancer in the Maryinsky company whose keen musical sense and creative interpretive power Volynsky was one of the first to recognize. Rabinowitz also translates Volynsky's magnum opus, The Book of Exaltations, an elaborate meditation on classical dance technique that is at once a primer and an ideological treatise. Throughout his writings, Rabinowitz argues in his critical introduction, which sets Volynsky's life and work against the backdrop of the principal intellectual currents of his time, Volynsky emphasizes the spiritual and ethereal qualities of ballet
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the Russian
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Subject Ballet -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 20th century
Ballet dancers -- Russia (Federation) -- History
PERFORMING ARTS -- Dance -- Modern.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Dance -- Classical & Ballet.
Ballet
Ballet dancers
Russia (Federation)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Rabinowitz, Stanley J.
ISBN 9780300142495
0300142498
Other Titles Works. Selections. English. 2008