03673nam 2200685 a 450 991045507270332120200520144314.097866123519141-282-35191-50-300-14249-81-282-08889-0978661208889610.12987/9780300142495(CKB)1000000000764810(StDuBDS)AH23049925(SSID)ssj0000108652(PQKBManifestationID)11138233(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000108652(PQKBWorkID)10059947(PQKB)10754807(MiAaPQ)EBC3420504(DE-B1597)485396(OCoLC)952754858(DE-B1597)9780300142495(Au-PeEL)EBL3420504(CaPaEBR)ebr10348398(CaONFJC)MIL208889(OCoLC)923593931(EXLCZ)99100000000076481020080505d2008 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrBallet's magic kingdom[electronic resource] selected writings on dance in Russia, 1911-1925 /Akim Volynsky ; translated, edited, and with an introduction and notes by Stanley J. RabinowitzNew Haven Yale University Pressc20081 online resource (320 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-12462-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction: Akim Volynsky and His Writings on Dance -- 1. Reviews and Articles -- 2. The Book of Exaltations The ABCs of Classical Dance -- Glossary of Names -- IndexAkim 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.BalletRussia (Federation)History and criticismBalletRussia (Federation)History20th centuryBallet dancersRussia (Federation)HistoryElectronic books.BalletHistory and criticism.BalletHistoryBallet dancersHistory.792.80947Volynskiĭ A. L.1863-1926.1036770Rabinowitz Stanley J905282MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455072703321Ballet's magic kingdom2457286UNINA