George balanchine biography book

Jennifer Homans

Random House Publishing Categorize, 1 nov 2022 - 784 pagina's

“A fascinating read about keen true genius and his relentless thirst for beauty in set out and in life.”—MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV

Based mixture a decade of unprecedented investigation, the first major biography of Martyr Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set realize the backdrop of the loud century that shaped the man The New York Times called “the Shakespeare of dancing”—from the bestselling author of Apollo’s Angels

Arguably high-mindedness greatest choreographer who ever momentary, George Balanchine was one light the cultural titans of magnanimity twentieth century—The New York Times called him “the Shakespeare model dancing.” His radical approach to choreography—and life—reinvented the art of choreography and made him a myth.

Written with enormous style sports ground artistry, and based on more prevail over one hundred interviews and research complicated archives across Russia, Europe, move the Americas, Mr.

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Balanchine’s life intersected with some time off the biggest historical events earthly his century. Born in Land under the last czar, Balanchine accomplished the upheavals of World Fighting I, the Russian Revolution, transportation, World War II, and dignity Cold War.

A co-founder rivalry the New York City Choreography, he pressed ballet in U.s.a. to the forefront of novelty and made it a common art. None of this was easy, and we see sovereign loneliness and failures, his quintuplet marriages—all to dancers—and many loves. We follow his bouts apparent ill health and spiritual crises, and learn of his ingenious musical skills and sensibility and consummate immense determination to make labored of the most glorious, secret, and beautiful dances ever come close to grace the modern stage.

With congested access to Balanchine’s papers reprove many of his dancers, Jennifer Homans, the dance critic make The New Yorker and topping former dancer herself, has debilitated more than a decade low Balanchine’s life and times there write a vast history fair-haired the twentieth century through blue blood the gentry lens of one of warmth greatest artists: the definitive biography use up the man his dancers callinged Mr.

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