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And then came dance : the women who led Volynsky to ballet's magic kingdom /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Volynskiĭ, A. L., 1863-1926 (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)
Other Authors: Rabinowitz, Stanley J. (Editor, Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Ballerinas > Russia > Biography.
Ballerinas > Soviet Union > Biography.
Ballet > Russia > History > 20th century.
Ballet > Soviet Union > History.
Dance criticism > Russia > History > 20th century.
Dance criticism > Soviet Union > History.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Women in art.
Women in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
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  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • A Note on the Text
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Akim Volynsky's Female Portraits
  • PART ONE: BODIES IN SITU
  • Russian Women: A Retrospective (1923)
  • 1) Amoureuses and Druidesses
  • 2) A Belated Druidess (on Lyubov Gurevich)
  • 3) The Sylph (on Zinaida Gippius)
  • 4) Pandora's Box (on Ida Rubinstein)
  • 5) A Bouquet (on Lou Andreas-Salome and others)
  • Amor (co-authored with Lou Andreas-Salome, 1897)
  • The Mona Lisa (from Volynsky's book: Leonardo da Vinci (1898)
  • 1) Nastasya Filippovna (1900)
  • 2) The Infernal Woman (Grushenka) (from Volynsky's writings on Dostoevsky 1901)
  • Madonna (Introduction to the Russian edition of Otto Weininger's Sex and Character, 1909)
  • BODIES IN MOTION
  • The 'Russkaya' (Ekaterina Geltser) (1912)
  • The Young Generation (1912)
  • The Dancing of Isadora Duncan (1913)
  • The Dancing of Anna Pavlova (1913)
  • Three Ballerinas (Pavlova, Preobrazhenskaya, Kshesinskaya) (1913)
  • A Legendary Talent (Agrippina Vaganova) (1913)
  • The Russian Dancer (1913)
  • The Pupil of Mariya Savina (Olga Spesivtsva) (1913)
  • The Performances at Krasnoe Selo (1913)
  • The Broken Harp (Olga Preobrazhenskaya) (1913)
  • The Snowflake (Olga Spesivtseva) (1913)
  • Anna Pavlova (1914)
  • A Pre-eminent Talent (Mathilda Kshesinskaya) (1914)
  • Vain Precautions (Tamara Karsavina) (1915)
  • Kseniya Makletsova (1915)
  • Moscow and Petrograd (Geltser, Makletsova, et al) (1915)
  • Agrippina Vaganova's Farewell Benefit (1916)
  • The Testing of a Ballerina (Elena Liukom) (1916)
  • Yuliya Sedova's Farewell Benefit (1916)
  • Tamara Karsavina (1916)
  • Vera Karalli (1916)
  • Liubov Egorova's Final Benefit Performance (1917)
  • The Classical Dancer (1922)
  • Elsa Vill (1922)
  • Classical Fouette and Leonardo da Vinci's Contrapposto (1922)
  • Giselle and The Little Humpbacked Horse (Elena Liukom) (1922)
  • The Animated Flower (1923)
  • Ballet's Lily (Elizaveta Gerdt) (1923)
  • Kseniya Petrovna Makletsova (1923)
  • Elena Liukom (1923)
  • Our Moscow Guests (Viktorina Kriger) (1923)
  • The Gemstones of Benvenuto Cellini (1923)
  • On the Russian Ballet (1923)
  • The Fairy of Deer Park (Mathilda Kshesinskaya) (1924).