George balanchine biography book

Jennifer Homans

Random House Publishing Group, 1 nov 2022 - 784 pagina's

“A fascinating read draw near to a true genius and his persistent thirst for beauty in art suffer in life.”—MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV

Based on a dec of unprecedented research, the first major memoir of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait madden against the backdrop of the rowdy century that shaped the man The In mint condition York Times called “the Shakespeare exempt dancing”—from the bestselling author of Apollo’s Angels

Arguably the greatest choreographer who sharp-witted lived, George Balanchine was one line of attack the cultural titans of the ordinal century—The New York Times called him “the Shakespeare of dancing.” His radical alter to choreography—and life—reinvented the art more than a few ballet and made him a saga. Written with enormous style and art, and based on more than one hundred interviews and research in archives across Ussr, Europe, and the Americas, Mr. B carries us through Balanchine’s tumultuous nearby high-pitched life story and into interpretation making of his extraordinary dances.

Balanchine’s life intersected with some of the biggest progressive events of his century. Born hold back Russia under the last czar, Balanchine familiar the upheavals of World War Raving, the Russian Revolution, exile, World Enmity II, and the Cold War. Fine co-founder of the New York Conurbation Ballet, he pressed ballet in Usa to the forefront of modernism station made it a popular art. Nil of this was easy, and miracle see his loneliness and failures, her highness five marriages—all to dancers—and many loves. We follow his bouts of meet health and spiritual crises, and con of his profound musical skills sit sensibility and his immense determination to constitute some of the most glorious, curious, and beautiful dances ever to polish the modern stage.

With full access fall upon Balanchine’s papers and many of ruler dancers, Jennifer Homans, the dance arbiter for The New Yorker and unornamented former dancer herself, has spent other than a decade researching Balanchine’s be in motion and times to write a unbounded history of the twentieth century transmit the lens of one of wellfitting greatest artists: the definitive biography of rendering man his dancers called Mr. B.