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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808131403321

Autore

Tchernichova Elena

Titolo

Dancing on water [[electronic resource] ] : a life in ballet, from the Kirov to the ABT / / Elena Tchernichova with Joel Lobenthal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Northeastern University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-55553-824-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LobenthalJoel

Disciplina

792.802/8092

B

Soggetti

Ballerinas - Russia (Federation)

Ballerinas - United States

Dance teachers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: A World Now Lost; 1 | Leningrad; 2 | Make-Believe; 3 | Facts of Life; 4 | Disillustionment; 5 | Rebels; 6 | Nureyev Arrives; 7 | I Start to Teach; 8 | Newlywed; 9 | My Son; 10 | Cultural Exchange; 11 | A Masterpiece; 12 | Seeing the World; 13 | Igor's Choreography; 14 | To the Black Sea; 15 | Restless; 16 | Émigré; Insert; Part II: The New; 17 | Holding Pattern; 18 | New York; 19 | Kirkland and Baryshnikov; 20 | Abt's Stars; 21 | Émigrés and Defectors; 22 | Makarova's ""Bayadère""; 23 | Baryshnikov Takes Over

24 | Russian Men25 | Kirkland Cataclysms; 26 | Abt's Problems; 27 | Ferri and Others; 29 | Harsh ""Beauty""; 30 | Glasnost; 31 | Peak; 32 | Baryshnikov's Swan Song; 33 | End of an Era; 34 | Directing Vienna; 35 | Epilogue; Afterword; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The pageantry and drama of a life in dance