Author: Olga Racster
Publisher: London : Hutchinson & Company
ISBN:
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Master of the Russian Ballet (the Memoirs of Cav. Enrico Cecchetti)
Author: Olga Racster
Publisher: London : Hutchinson & Company
ISBN:
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher: London : Hutchinson & Company
ISBN:
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Master of the Russian Ballet (the Memoirs of Cav. Enrico Cecchetti)
Author: Olga Racster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dancers
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dancers
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Master of the Russian Ballet. The Memoirs of Cav. Enrico Cecchetti, Etc. [With Portraits.].
Author: Olga Racster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Master of the Russian Ballet (the Memoirs of Cav. Enrico Cecchetti)
Author: Olga Racster
Publisher: London : Hutchinson & Company
ISBN:
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher: London : Hutchinson & Company
ISBN:
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Marius Petipa
Author: Nadine Meisner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190659297
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
One of the most important ballet choreographers of all time, Marius Petipa (1818 - 1910) created works that are now mainstays of the ballet repertoire. Every day, in cities around the world, performances of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty draw large audiences to theatres and inspire new generations of dancers, as does The Nutcracker during the winter holidays. These are his best-known works, but others - Don Quixote, La Bayadère - have also become popular, even canonical components of the classical repertoire, and together they have shaped the defining style of twentieth-century ballet. The first biography in English of this monumental figure of ballet history, Marius Petipa: The Emperor's Ballet Master covers the choreographer's life and work in full within the context of remarkable historical and political surroundings. Over the course of ten well-researched chapters, Nadine Meisner explores Marius Petipa's life and legacy: the artist's arrival in Russia from his native France, the socio-political tensions and revolution he experienced, his popularity on the Russian imperial stage, his collaborations with other choreographers and composers (most famously Tchaikovsky), and the conditions under which he worked, in close proximity to the imperial court. Meisner presents a thrilling and exhaustive narrative not only of Petipa's life but of the cultural development of ballet across the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book also extends beyond Petipa's narrative with insightful analyses of the evolution of ballet technique, theatre genres, and the rise of male dancers. Richly illustrated with archival photographs, this book unearths original material from Petipa's 63 years in Russia, much of it never published in English before. As Meisner demonstrates, the choreographer laid the foundations for Soviet ballet and for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, the expatriate company which exercised such an enormous influence on ballet in the West, including the Royal Ballet and Balanchine's New York City Ballet. After Petipa, Western ballet would never be the same.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190659297
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
One of the most important ballet choreographers of all time, Marius Petipa (1818 - 1910) created works that are now mainstays of the ballet repertoire. Every day, in cities around the world, performances of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty draw large audiences to theatres and inspire new generations of dancers, as does The Nutcracker during the winter holidays. These are his best-known works, but others - Don Quixote, La Bayadère - have also become popular, even canonical components of the classical repertoire, and together they have shaped the defining style of twentieth-century ballet. The first biography in English of this monumental figure of ballet history, Marius Petipa: The Emperor's Ballet Master covers the choreographer's life and work in full within the context of remarkable historical and political surroundings. Over the course of ten well-researched chapters, Nadine Meisner explores Marius Petipa's life and legacy: the artist's arrival in Russia from his native France, the socio-political tensions and revolution he experienced, his popularity on the Russian imperial stage, his collaborations with other choreographers and composers (most famously Tchaikovsky), and the conditions under which he worked, in close proximity to the imperial court. Meisner presents a thrilling and exhaustive narrative not only of Petipa's life but of the cultural development of ballet across the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book also extends beyond Petipa's narrative with insightful analyses of the evolution of ballet technique, theatre genres, and the rise of male dancers. Richly illustrated with archival photographs, this book unearths original material from Petipa's 63 years in Russia, much of it never published in English before. As Meisner demonstrates, the choreographer laid the foundations for Soviet ballet and for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, the expatriate company which exercised such an enormous influence on ballet in the West, including the Royal Ballet and Balanchine's New York City Ballet. After Petipa, Western ballet would never be the same.
The great history of Russian ballet
Author: Evdokia Belova
Publisher: Parkstone International
ISBN: 1646999630
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Although the techniques of classical ballets were invented by French and Italian masters two hundred years ago, the Russian Ballet refined these techniques, thus enhancing its already superb performances. This book uncovers the Great History of Russian Ballet, its art and choreography.
Publisher: Parkstone International
ISBN: 1646999630
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Although the techniques of classical ballets were invented by French and Italian masters two hundred years ago, the Russian Ballet refined these techniques, thus enhancing its already superb performances. This book uncovers the Great History of Russian Ballet, its art and choreography.
Russian Ballet Master
Author: Marius Petipa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Master of the Russian Ballet; the Memoires of Enrico Cecchetti
Author: Olga Racster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
Author: Simon Morrison
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 0871408309
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
In this “incredibly rich” (New York Times) definitive history of the Bolshoi Ballet, visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage. A critical triumph, Simon Morrison’s “sweeping and authoritative” (Guardian) work, Bolshoi Confidential, details the Bolshoi Ballet’s magnificent history from its earliest tumults to recent scandals. On January 17, 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid into the face of the artistic director, making international headlines. A lead soloist, enraged by institutional power struggles, later confessed to masterminding the crime. Morrison gives the shocking violence context, describing the ballet as a crucible of art and politics beginning with the disreputable inception of the theater in 1776, through the era of imperial rule, the chaos of revolution, the oppressive Soviet years, and the Bolshoi’s recent $680 million renovation. With vibrant detail including “sex scandals, double-suicide pacts, bribery, arson, executions, prostitution rings, embezzlement, starving orphans, [and] dead cats in lieu of flowers” (New Republic), Morrison makes clear that the history of the Bolshoi Ballet mirrors that of Russia itself.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 0871408309
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
In this “incredibly rich” (New York Times) definitive history of the Bolshoi Ballet, visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage. A critical triumph, Simon Morrison’s “sweeping and authoritative” (Guardian) work, Bolshoi Confidential, details the Bolshoi Ballet’s magnificent history from its earliest tumults to recent scandals. On January 17, 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid into the face of the artistic director, making international headlines. A lead soloist, enraged by institutional power struggles, later confessed to masterminding the crime. Morrison gives the shocking violence context, describing the ballet as a crucible of art and politics beginning with the disreputable inception of the theater in 1776, through the era of imperial rule, the chaos of revolution, the oppressive Soviet years, and the Bolshoi’s recent $680 million renovation. With vibrant detail including “sex scandals, double-suicide pacts, bribery, arson, executions, prostitution rings, embezzlement, starving orphans, [and] dead cats in lieu of flowers” (New Republic), Morrison makes clear that the history of the Bolshoi Ballet mirrors that of Russia itself.
Russian Ballet Master
Author: Marius Petipa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description