Akim Volynsky was once a Russian literary critic, journalist, and artwork historian who turned Saint Petersburg’s liveliest and such a lot prolific ballet critic within the early a part of the 20th century. This publication, the 1st English variation of his provocative and influential writings, presents a amazing examine lifestyles contained in the global of Russian ballet at a vital period in its history.
Stanley J. Rabinowitz selects and interprets 40 of Volynsky’s articles—vivid, eyewitness bills that flicker with information about the careers and personalities of such dance luminaries as Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Fokine, Tamara Karsavina, and George Balanchine, at the moment a tender dancer within the Maryinsky corporation whose prepared musical feel and artistic interpretive energy Volynsky used to be one of many first to acknowledge. Rabinowitz additionally interprets Volynsky’s magnum opus, The e-book of Exaltations, an tricky meditation on classical dance process that's instantaneously a primer and an ideological treatise. all through his writings, Rabinowitz argues in his severe creation, which units Volynsky’s lifestyles and paintings opposed to the backdrop of the crucial highbrow currents of his time, Volynsky emphasizes the non secular and airy traits of ballet.
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