Ballet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925

Ballet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925
by Akim Volynsky

Ballet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925
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Author: Akim Volynsky
Editor: Prof. Stanley J. Rabinowitz
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-12-09
ISBN: 0300124627
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Yale University Press

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Book Review: Ballet's Magic Kingdom
Summary: 5 Stars

I had read the NY Times Book Review of this book and purchased it. It arrived in a timely manner, in excellent condition. It provides a unique perspective on a very significant period in ballet history.

Summary of Ballet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925

Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg?s liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book, the first English edition of his provocative and influential writings, provides a striking look at life inside the world of Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history.

Stanley J. Rabinowitz selects and translates forty of Volynsky?s articles?vivid, eyewitness accounts that sparkle with details about the careers and personalities of such dance luminaries as Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Fokine, Tamara Karsavina, and George Balanchine, at that time a young dancer in the Maryinsky company whose keen musical sense and creative interpretive power Volynsky was one of the first to recognize. Rabinowitz also translates Volynsky?s magnum opus, The Book of Exaltations, an elaborate meditation on classical dance technique that is at once a primer and an ideological treatise. Throughout his writings, Rabinowitz argues in his critical introduction, which sets Volynsky?s life and work against the backdrop of the principal intellectual currents of his time, Volynsky emphasizes the spiritual and ethereal qualities of ballet. (20090125)

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