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Dancing in the vortex : the story of Ida Rubinstein /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woolf, Vicki
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Abingdon : Harwood Academic ; Marston, ©2000.
Series:Choreography and dance studies ; v. 20.
Subjects:
Rubinstein, Ida, > 1883-1960.
Ballet dancers > Biography.
Danseurs de ballet > Biographies.
Rubinstein, Ida, > 1883-1960
Ballet dancers.
Dansers.
Rubinstein, Ida.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the series
  • List of plates
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword / Christina Gallea and Alexander Roy
  • Prologue: Ruins against the sky
  • St. Petersburg
  • Antigone
  • Salomé
  • Cléopâtre
  • Schéhérazade
  • Artists' model
  • St. Sébastien
  • The producer
  • War and revolution
  • Cracks in the mask
  • Milan
  • La Dame aux Camélias
  • Nijinsky
  • The 1928 season
  • Covent Garden 1931
  • The Paris Opera 1934
  • World War Two
  • Vence
  • Whispers in the wings.