" Based on decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of Georges Balanchine - a broad-canvas portraits set against the backdrop of tumultuous century that shaped the man "The new York Times" called " the Shakespeare of dancing"
Arguable the greatest choreographer who ever lived, Georges Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century. He created more than four hundred ballets, including "Serenade", "Agon" and his now iconic version of "The Nutcraker. His radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of ballet and made him a legend. Written with enormous style and artistry, and based on more than one hundred interviewa and research in archives across Russia, Europe, and the Americas, Jennifer Homans'S "Mr. B." carries us through Balanchine's tumultuous and dramatic life and into the making of his extraordinary dances.
Balanchine's Life intersected with some of the biggest historical events of his century. Born in Russia under the last csar, Balanchine experienced th upheavals of World War I, the Russian Revolution, exile, World War II, and the Cold War. A co-fonder of the New York City Ballet, he pressed ballet in América to the forefront of modernism and made it a popular art. None of this was easy, and we see his loneliness and failures, his five marriages - all to dancers - and many loves. We follow his bouts of ill health and spiritual crises, and learn of his profound musical skills and sensibility and his immense determination to make some of the most glorious, strange, and beautiful dances ever to grace the modern stage.
With full acces to Balanchine's papers and many of his dancers, Jennifer Homans. the dance critic for "The NEw Yorker" bd a former dancer herself, had spent more than a decade researching Balanchine's life and times to write a vast history of the twentieth century through the lens of one of its greatest artists: the definitive biography if the man his dancers called Mr. B. " 2e de couverture
Contents
- Introduction : Dead Souls
- Russia
Chapter 1 : Happy Families
Chapter 2 : Icons of Childhood
Chapter 3 : War and peace
Chapter 4 : A Cloud in Trousers
- Russia Abroad
Chapter 5 : Weimar Culture
Chapter 6 : Big Serge
Chapter 7 : Apollo
Chapter 8 : Magic Mountain
- America
Chapter 9 : Lincoln
Chapter 10 : New York
Chapter 11 : Time of Troubles
Chapter 12 : Zorina
Chapter 13 : Balanchine's War
Chapter 14 : Lincoln's War
Chapter 15 : Company
Chapter 16 : Disciplining the Body
Chapter 17 : Tanny and Jerry
Chapter 18 : Agon
Chapter 19 : Cold War
Chapter 20 : USSR
Chapter 21 : Master Builder
Chapter 22 : Don Quixote
Chapter 23 : The Alabaster Princess
Chapter 24 : A Legion of Angels
- The end of the dance
Chapter 25 : Aging
Chapter 26 : Time to Go!
Chpter 27 : The Mortal End
Chapter 28 Funeral March
Chapter 29 : Adagio Lamentoso
Bibliographe et index
[-]" Based on decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of Georges Balanchine - a broad-canvas portraits set against the backdrop of tumultuous century that shaped the man "The new York Times" called " the Shakespeare of dancing"
Arguable the greatest choreographer who ever lived, Georges Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century. He created more than four hundred ballets, including "Serenade", "Agon" and ...
[+]