Like a bomb going off : Leonid Yakobson and ballet as resistance in Soviet Russia /

"Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary, who remained in Lenin's Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ross, Janice (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
I͡Akobson, Leonid.
I͡Akobson, Leonid
Choreographers > Soviet Union > Biography.
Dancers > Soviet Union > Biography.
Ballet > Soviet Union > History.
Dance > Political aspects > Soviet Union.
Chorégraphes > URSS > Biographies.
Danseurs > URSS > Biographies.
Ballet > URSS > Histoire.
Danse > Aspect politique > URSS.
PERFORMING ARTS > Dance > Classical & Ballet.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts.
HISTORY > Europe > Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
Ballet
Choreographers
Dance > Political aspects
Dancers
Soviet Union
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Ballet and power: Leonid Yakobson in Soviet Russia
  • 2. Beginnings: Learning to be an outsider
  • 3. What is to be done with ballet?
  • 4. Chilling and thawing: Cold war ballet and the anti-Jewish campaign
  • 5. Spartacus
  • 6. Dismantling the hero
  • 7. A company of his own: Privatizing Soviet ballet
  • 8. Totalitarianism, uncertainty, and ballet.

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