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Ballet's magic kingdom : selected writings on dance in Russia, 1911-1925 /

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 twe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Volynskiĭ, A. L., 1863-1926
Otros Autores: Rabinowitz, Stanley J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
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Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Univ. Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on the Text
  • Introduction: Akim Volynsky and His Writings on Dance
  • Part 1. Reviews and Articles
  • 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)
  • Part 2. The Book of Exaltations: The ABCs of Classical Dance (1925)
  • Principles of Classical Dance
  • Choreography
  • Ballet
  • Verticality
  • The Toes
  • Turnout
  • Exposing the Essence
  • Croisé and Effacé
  • Elevation
  • The Nature of Classical Dance
  • The Arms
  • Music
  • Features and Forms
  • Positions
  • Plié
  • Battements
  • Rond de Jambe
  • The Exercise's Finale
  • In the Center
  • Coupé
  • Gliding Movements
  • Fouetté
  • Straight and Crooked Lines
  • Attitude and Arabesque
  • Pirouette
  • En Tournant The Clock's Chimes
  • Postscript
  • Allegro
  • Leap, Jump, Flight
  • Earth and Sky
  • Beats
  • Sissonne (Sisol)
  • Entrechat
  • The Line Upward
  • Technique
  • Pas de Basque
  • Summa summarum
  • A Bird's-Eye View
  • Male Dancing: A Synthesis
  • Acrobatism
  • The Ballet Master
  • Myth and Fairy Tale
  • The Soul's Reserves
  • The Ballet Libretto
  • The Danseur
  • The Corps de Ballet
  • Mime
  • Vis medicatrix (Strength, the Healer)
  • Glossary of Names
  • Index.