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PAPERBACK, attractive copy, very good. nicely INSCRIBED on front endpaper to two recipients, recalling a trip together, and SIGNED Stanley Rabinowitz. VOLYNSKY, AKIM. Ballet's magic kingdom: selected writings on dance in Russia, 1911-1925. Translated, edited, and with an introduction and notes by Stanley J. Rabinowitz. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, later printing number line ending in 3, xliii, 288pp., . "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." - CONTENTS: Dance as a Solemn Ritual (1911) -- Coppélia (1911) -- Tamara Karsavina: The Trial of Damis; The Nutcracker (1911) -- Mathilda Kshesinskaya: Swan Lake (1911) -- Schumann, Ballet, and Fokine (1912) -- Eunice and Chopiniana (1912) -- Errors of Creation: On Papillons and Islamey (1912) -- The Little Dove: Harlequinade (1912) -- The Russian Dance: Die Puppenfee (1912) -- Raymonda (1912) -- Coppélia (1912) -- Vaganova's Variation (1912) -- The Tsar Maiden: A New Production of The Little Humpbacked Horse (1912) -- A Circle of Immovable Stars: Alexander Gorsky and Mikhail Fokine (1913) -- Isadora Duncan: The Last Word (1913) -- Anna Pavlova (1913) -- Pavlova's Farewell Performance: La Bayadère (1913) -- A Kaleidoscope of Attire: Still More on Konstantin Korovin (1914) -- Elegy (1915) -- Mikhail Fokine: Some Lines Toward a Polemic (1915) -- La Jota Aragonese (1916) -- My Miniatures: Swan Lake (1920) -- Marius Petipa's La Bayadère (1922) -- The End of the Season: Lida Ivanova (1922) -- Two Schools of Classical Dance: Sleeping Beauty (1922) -- Stravinsky's Ballets (1922) -- The Birth of Apollo (1923) -- What Will Ballet Live By? (1923) -- A Wretched Housepainter: The Nutcracker (1923) -- The Weeping Spirit (1923) -- The Innovator: Mikhail Fokine (1923) -- Don Quixote (1923) -- Classical Attire (1923) -- Naked, Barefoot, and Beltless (1923) -- Swan Lake: The Swan in Music (1923) -- Sleeping Beauty (1923) -- Swan Lake: The Swan in Motion (1924) -- Lida Ivanova (1924) -- Adrienne Lecouvreur (1924) -- Tamara Karsavina (1924) -- Principles of Classical Dance -- Features and Forms -- In the Center -- Allegro -- A Bird's-Eye View. ISBN 9780300164497.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The first translation of the writings of Akim Volynsky, the greatest ballet authority of early twentieth-century Russia Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburgs 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 Volynskys articlesvivid, 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 Volynskys 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 Volynskys life and work against the backdrop of the principal intellectual currents of his time, Volynsky emphasizes the spiritual and ethereal qualities of ballet. Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book features a collection of his provocative and influential writings, and provides a look at life inside the world of Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: New. The first translation of the writings of Akim Volynsky, the greatest ballet authority of early twentieth-century Russia 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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Condition: New. Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book features a collection of his provocative and influential writings, and provides a look at life inside the world of Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history. Editor(s): Rabinowitz, Stanley J. Translator(s): Rabinowitz, Stanley J. Num Pages: 352 pages, 24 black-&-white illustrations in a gallery. BIC Classification: ASDL; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478. . 2010. Paperback. . . . .