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Modernism after the Ballets Russes
Modernism after the Ballets Russes
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Modernism after the Ballets Russes recovers the striking yet understudied role that Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes played in the development of modernist ...
Alighting from the Air
Alighting from the Air
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Ballerina Tamara Karsavina (1885–1978) led an extraordinary life: she graduated from the Imperial Theatre School in the last years of the Romanov dynasty...
Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg
Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg
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This book offers something entirely new: detailed scene-by-scene descriptions of the action and dancing of five classic ballets, bringing the reader far clo...
Dancing Marines and Pumping Gasoline
Dancing Marines and Pumping Gasoline
This essay offers close readings of two of Depression-era ballets that arts impresario Lincoln Kirstein developed for his troupe The Ballet Caravan. Because of Kirstein’s integrate...