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Author: Lauren Stringer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 0547907257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComposer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian comrades, worked together to bring a very different and new ballet to a Parisian audienceN"The Rite of Spring"Nand rioting filled the streets! Full color.
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Manchester : Carcanet Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press ; Paris : Alyscamps Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe diary entries of John Cowper Powys begin in America, where Powys had just retired after 25 years of freelance lecturing, and end in Wales, with the completion of Owen Glendower. His day-to-day preoccupations - from the aesthetic to the anatomical - are evident here, along with reflections on his works in progress (numerous essays on philosophy, religion and literature, and four novels including A Glastonbury Romance), encounters with members of his family, and detailed observations of rural life in upstate New York, in the West Country, and in Wales. The diary also charts Powys's life with Phyllis Playter, to form her biography as well as his autobiography.
Author: Andrew Wachtel
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1998-05-13
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 0810115662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this groundbreaking book, four distinguished scholars offer a detailed exploration of the ballet Petrushka, which premiered in Paris in 1911 and became one of the most important and influential theatrical works of the modernist period. The first book to study every level of a complex theatrical production, this is a work unlike any other in Russian or theater studies. "The book is a joy to read." --Slavic Review
Author: John Haskell
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2017-09-19
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1555979793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA dark-hued, hybrid novel by a writer who “delivers our culture back to us, made entirely new” (A. M. Homes) In The Complete Ballet, John Haskell choreographs an intricate and irresistible pas de deux in which fiction and criticism come together to create a new kind of story. Fueled by the dramatic retelling of five romantic ballets, and interwoven with a contemporary story about a man whose daunting gambling debt pushes him to the edge of his own abyss, it is both a pulpy entertainment and a meditation on the physicality—and psychology—of dance. The unnamed narrator finds himself inexorably drawn back to the pre–cell phone world of Technicolor Los Angeles, to a time when the tragedies of his life were about to collide. Working as a part-time masseur in Hollywood, he attends an underground poker game with his friend Cosmo, a strip-club entrepreneur. What happens there hurtles the narrator down the road and into the room where the novel’s violent and surreal showdown leaves him a different person. As the narrator revisits his past, he simultaneously inhabits and reconstructs the mythic stories of ballet, assessing along the way the lives and obsessions of Nijinsky and Balanchine, Pavlova and Fonteyn, Joseph Cornell and the story’s presiding spirit, the film director John Cassavetes. This compulsively readable fiction is ultimately a profound and haunting consideration of the nature of art and identity.
Author: Igor Stravinsky
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 0486256804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStravinsky's score for the ballet "Petrushka, " commissioned by Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, was first performed in Paris in 1911 and was an immediate sensation with the public and the critics. It followed by a year the great success of his score for "The Firebird, " also produced by the Ballets Russes, and it confirmed Stravinsky's reputation as the most gifted of the younger generation of Russian composers. The ballet had begun in Stravinsky's mind as a "picture of a puppet suddenly endowed with life, exasperating the patience of the orchestra with diabolical cascades of arpeggios." Soon Diaghilev had convinced the young composer to turn the work into a ballet score. Benois was chosen to be his collaborator in the libretto, Fokine and Nijinsky became involved, and the bizarre tale of three dancing puppets Petrushka (a folk character in Russian lore), the Ballerina, and the Moor, brought to life in a tragic tale of love would soon become one of the most acclaimed and performed of ballet masterpieces. Brilliantly orchestrated, filled with Russian folksong as well as new and striking harmonies, alternately poignant and splendidly imposing, the score of "Petrushka" continues to be a popular subject for the study of tonal language and orchestration. This edition is an unabridged republication of the original edition published in 1912 by Edition Russe de Musique in Berlin. Printed on fine paper, sturdily bound, yet remarkably inexpensive, it offers musical scholars, musical performers, and music lovers a lifetime of pleasurable study and enjoyment of one of the most popular and acclaimed musical works of the twentieth century."
Author: Bronislava Nijinska
Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 648
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gillian Lenton
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9780946483983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Catherine E. Pawlick
Publisher:
Published: 2022-05-03
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780813068718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgrippina Vaganova (1879-1951) is revered as the visionary who first codified the Russian system of classical ballet training. The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, founded on impeccable technique and centuries of tradition, has a reputation for elite standards, and its graduates include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, and Diana Vishneva. Yet the Vaganova method has come under criticism in recent years. In this absorbing volume, Catherine Pawlick traces Vaganova's story from her early years as a ballet student in tsarist Russia to her career as a dancer with the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet to her work as a pedagogue and choreographer. Pawlick then goes beyond biography to address Vaganova's legacy today, offering the first-ever English translations of primary source materials and intriguing interviews with pedagogues and dancers from the Academy and the Mariinsky Ballet, including some who studied with Vaganova herself.
Author: Jane Rosenberg
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780500277393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRetells twelve great ballets as fairy tales--fairy tales set to music and told through the medium of dance.
Author: Stephanie Jordan
Publisher: Dance Books Limited
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9781852731250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStephanie Jordan's ground-breaking survey and close examination of a range of Stravinsky dances - some familiar, others less so - sheds new, unexpected light upon a renowned composer of ballet music.This book is essential reading for scholars and students in the fields of dance, music and interdisciplinary studies.
