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Balanchine - A Biography

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Bernard Taper is Emeritus Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. Klappentext Written with wit! insight! and candor! this updated edition of Balachine is a book that will delight lovers of biography as well as those with a special interest in dance. For this edition the author has added a thoughtful yet dramatic account of the working out of Balachine's legacy! from the making of his controversial will to the present day. Zusammenfassung Providing a discussion of Balanchine's life and work, this text also explores the legal, financial and institutional subplots that unfolded after the death of one of the most famous choreographers of the century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Foreword CHAPTER ONE: Choreographer in His Element CHAPTER TWO: Childhood in Russia CHAPTER THREE: Monkey-A Student CHAPTER FOUR: First Choreography CHAPTER FIVE: Ballet Master to Diaghilev CHAPTER SIX: Apollo and Prodigal Son CHAPTER SEVEN: Rootless Years CHAPTER EIGHT: But First a School CHAPTER NINE: An Ace Job on the Terp Angle CHAPTER TEN : Second Beginnings CHAPTER ELEVEN: God Creates! Woman Inspires! and Man Assembles The Making of Agon-A Photo Essay CHAPTER TWELVE: Come Back! Come Back! Come Back CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Essential Tradition CHAPTER FOURTEEN: What's the Matter with Now? CHAPTER FIFTEEN: At Seventy CHAPTER SIXTEEN: An Appetite for Renewal CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Last Year EPILOGUE: Choreographing the Future Appendix Photo Credits Index

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Authors Bernard Taper, Taper Bernard
Publisher University Of California Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 29.06.1996
 
EAN 9780520206397
ISBN 978-0-520-20639-7
No. of pages 413
Dimensions 155 mm x 235 mm x 28 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies

PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography: arts & entertainment, Ballet, Biography: arts and entertainment

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