Dancing in Petersburg: The Memoirs of Mathilde Kschessinka
Language: English
Published by Dance Books, Alton, Hampshire, 2005
- Softcover
- Used
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first five pages have some underlining, margin marks/notes after which text is clean and unmarked. brief note on title page in black ballpoint pen. binding tight. covers have very light wear. edges of pages have very light wear.
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- Title
- Dancing in Petersburg: The Memoirs of Mathilde Kschessinka
- Author
- Kschessinka, Mathilde
- Publisher
- Dance Books, Alton, Hampshire
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1852731052
- ISBN 13
- 9781852731052
As a dancer she had few rivals: apart from her marvelous technique she had a star personality, and was adored by the public. At the height of her fame she appeared in London with Diaghilev's company and danced with Nijinsky: she preferred, however, to dance in Russia, and for twenty years she was the adored darling of the great world of Petersburg.
After the Revolution, when she was living as an emigre in the South of France, Diaghilev begged her to dance for him in his new Paris season, but to no avail.
Kschessinska's memoirs fall roughly into three parts: the glittering fairy-story of her life as prima ballerina in Russia; her flight during the Revolution; and the era in which she established herself as a teacher of the highest rank. It is an extraordinary self-revelation of a great dancer and an utterly human person.
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