Balanchine finds his America : a tale of love, loss and ballet reborn /
"This book examines, and dramatizes, thirteen difficult and crucial years in the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, ballet choreographer George Balanchine. It highlights not only his psyche and his trajectory, but the people and events that impacted both his life and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book examines, and dramatizes, thirteen difficult and crucial years in the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, ballet choreographer George Balanchine. It highlights not only his psyche and his trajectory, but the people and events that impacted both his life and his work, especially the anguished love affair and marriage at the center of this story. Balanchine arrived in the United States in 1933, a passport-less Russian émigré. Over those next thirteen years he created a handful of mysteriously inventive, technically groundbreaking, quintessentially American ballets--ballets that can seem as intimate as diary entries, yet that catapulted the antique art of ballet to the forefront of American modernism. His postwar masterwork, The Four Temperaments (1946), pointed the way to America's emerging dominance in world culture. This book offers new connections between Balanchine's life and his work, examining his interactions with his ever-younger female dancers, with whom he collaborated closely, whom he influenced at times intrusively. It redraws the portrait of this often-misunderstood American artist, co-founder of the still powerful and influential arts complex at the center of Western dance, the New York City Ballet and School of American Ballet." -- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 208 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197801468 0197801463 9780197801451 0197801455 9780197801444 0197801447 |