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by Akim Volynsky; Stanley J. Rabinowitz (Editor); Stanley J. Rabinowitz (Translator)

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Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg s liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book, the first English edition of his provocative and influential writings, provides a striking look at life inside the world of Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history.

Stanley J. Rabinowitz selects and translates forty of Volynsky s articles vivid, eyewitness accounts that sparkle with details about the careers and personalities of such dance luminaries as Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Fokine, Tamara Karsavina, and George Balanchine, at that time a young dancer in the Maryinsky company whose keen musical sense and creative interpretive power Volynsky was one of the first to recognize. Rabinowitz also translates Volynsky s magnum opus, "The Book of Exaltations, " an elaborate meditation on classical dance technique that is at once a primer and an ideological treatise. Throughout his writings, Rabinowitz argues in his critical introduction, which sets Volynsky s life and work against the backdrop of the principal intellectual currents of his time, Volynsky emphasizes the spiritual and ethereal qualities of ballet."

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  • Title Ballet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925
  • Author Akim Volynsky; Stanley J. Rabinowitz (Editor); Stanley J. Rabinowitz (Translator)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, NEW HAVEN
  • Publication date 2008-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780300124620 / 0300124627
  • Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.42 x 6.42 x 1.07 in (23.93 x 16.31 x 2.72 cm)
  • Category Performing Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Ballet - Russia (Federation) - History and, Ballet - Russia (Federation) - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008020365
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792.809

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Stanley J. Rabinowitz is Henry Steele Commager Professor and professor of Russian, Amherst College, and director of the Amherst Center for Russian Culture. He lives in Amherst, MA.
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