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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Dancing genius
    sub title: the stardom of Vaslav Nijinsky
  name:
    name part: Järvinen, Hanna.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 325 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Dancing Genius is the first book-length critical study on Vaslav Nijinsky as a star dancer of the Ballets Russes company. Through looking into definitions of virtuosity, stardom and genius, Hanna Jarvinen contrasts contemporary materials from Russia, France, England and the United States with later, hegemonic interpretations. Nijinsky emerges as a celebrity figure whose dancing was attributed with genius in order to raise the prestige of the art form, but a figure also attributed with 'racial' characteristics in a thoroughly Orientalist manner. Tracing the historical figure in contemporary documents and later reminiscences, the book opens up questions about authorship in dance, about critical evaluation of performance practice, and the manner in which past events are turned into history.
  table of contents: Introduction: A Genealogy -- Part I. The Russian Invasion: 1. An Audience for Ballet; 2. Orientalism -- Part II. The Silen Body of a Genius: 3. The Unique Genius; 4. Male Beauty; 5. Corporeality; 6. The Mad Genius -- Part III: A Russian Ballet?: 7. The Old and the New Ballet; 8. Revolutionary Exiles -- Conclusion.
  note: Hanna Järvinen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ru---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Nijinsky, Vaslaw
      name part: 1890-1950
  subject:
    topic: Ballet dancers
    geographic: Soviet Union
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
  classification: GV1785.N6 J37 2014
  classification: 792.8092
  identifier: 9781137407726 (hardback)
  identifier: 1137407727 (hardback)
  identifier: 2014018690
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140512
    record change date: 20151206123029.0
    record identifier: in00003504519