Swans of the Kremlin : Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia /
"Classical ballet was perhaps the most visible symbol of aristocratic culture and its isolation from the rest of Russian society under the tsars. In the wake of the October Revolution, ballet, like all of the arts, fell under the auspices of the Soviet authorities. In light of these events, man...
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Survival: the Mariinsky and Bolshoi after the October revolution
- Ideological pressure: classical ballet and Soviet cultural politics, 1923-1936
- Art versus politics: the Kirov's artistic council, 1950s-1960s
- Ballet battles: the Kirov ballet during Khrushchev's Thaw
- Beyond the iron curtain: the Bolshoi ballet in London in 1956
- Enfant terrible: Leonid Iakobson and The Bedbug, 1962
- Choreography as resistance: Yuri Grigorovich's Spartacus, 1968.