Rene Blum and The Ballets Russes
Rene Blum and The Ballets Russes

Author: Judith Chazin-Bennahum

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-07-15

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0199830479

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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.

Ida Rubinstein
Ida Rubinstein

Author: Judith Chazin-Bennahum

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2022-03-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1438487991

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Ida Rubinstein (1883–1960) captivated Paris's dancers, composers, artists, and audiences from her time in the Ballets Russes in 1909 to her final performances in 1939. Trained in Russia as an actress and a dancer, her life spanned the artistic freedom of the Belle Époque through the ravages of World War I, the Depression, and finally World War II. This critical biography carefully examines aspects of Rubinstein's life and career that have previously received little attention. These include her early life in Russia, her writing about performance aesthetics, her curated approach to acting and dancing roles, and her encumbered position as a woman and a Jew. Rubinstein used her considerable fortune to produce dozens of plays, lyric creations, and ballets, making her one of the foremost producers of the first half of the twentieth century. Employing the greatest scenic artists, Léon Bakst and Alexander Benois; the distinguished composers Igor Stravinsky, Arthur Honegger, and Claude Debussy; celebrated writers including Paul Valéry and André Gide; and the brilliant choreographer Bronislava Nijinska, Rubinstein transformed twentieth-century theater and dance.

Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo
Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo

Author: Victoria Tennant

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2014-10-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 022616716X

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"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.

Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes
Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes

Author: Michael Meylac

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-10-30

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 178673205X

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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.

Balanchine and Kirstein's American Enterprise
Balanchine and Kirstein's American Enterprise

Author: James Steichen

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0190607416

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Challenging the mythologies surrounding the early years of the Balanchine-Kirstein enterprise, this book weaves a new and definitive account of a crucial period in dance history.

Choura
Choura

Author: Alexandra Danilova

Publisher: Fromm International

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Frederic Franklin
Frederic Franklin

Author: Leslie Norton

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2007-07-05

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0786430516

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With a ballet career spanning well over eight decades, legendary dancer Frederic Franklin was one of the twentieth century's great ballet stars. This biography, rich with original interviews, covers his entire career from young dance student in the early 1920s to his most recent position as choreographer with Britain's Royal Ballet in November 2004. Each chapter covers a different period of Franklin's life, including the peak of his performing career as a principal dancer with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, his legendary professional partnership with Alexandra Danilova, and his role in introducing ballet to millions of Americans during World War II.

The Jewish Decadence
The Jewish Decadence

Author: Jonathan Freedman

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2021-04-26

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 022658108X

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"Freedman's final book is a tour de force that examines the history of Jewish involvement in the decadent art movement. While decadent art's most notorious practitioner was Oscar Wilde, as a movement it spread through western Europe and even included a few adherents in Russia. Jewish writers and artists such as Catulle Mèndes, Gustav Kahn, and Simeon Solomon would portray non-stereotyped characters and produce highly influential works. After decadent art's peak, Walter Benjamin, Marcel Proust, and Sigmund Freud would take up the idiom of decadence and carry it with them during the cultural transition to modernism. Freedman expertly and elegantly takes readers through this transition and beyond, showing the lineage of Jewish decadence all the way through to the end of the twentieth century"--

Diaghilev
Diaghilev

Author: Sjeng Scheijen

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2010-08-26

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 1846681642

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This magnificent new biography of the extraordinary impresario of the arts and creator of the Ballets Russes 100 years ago draws on important new research, notably from Russia. ‘Scheijen masterfully recounts the phenomenal way in which Diaghilev contrived, under virtually impossible circumstances, to nurture a sequence of works … he triumphs in making clear the degree to which, despite the cosmopolitanism of so much of the work, Russia was at the core of Diaghilev' Simon Callow, Guardian ‘It's a fabulous, complicated, very sexy story and Sjeng Scheijen takes us through it with a steadying calm that fudges none of the outrage on or off stage' Duncan Fallowell, Daily Express 'Magnificent … filled with extraordinary glamour' Rupert Christiansen, Daily Mail

De Basil's Ballets Russes
De Basil's Ballets Russes

Author: Kathrine Sorley Walker

Publisher: Dance Books Limited

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 9781852731373

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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.