| And Then Came Dance: The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom Contributor(s): Rabinowitz (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0190943378 ISBN-13: 9780190943370 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Dance - General - Music | Genres & Styles - Ballet - Music | Genres & Styles - Dance |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Presenting for the first time Akim Volynsky's (1861-1926) pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida Rubinstein, and Lou Andreas-Salome, And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the origins of Volynsky's life-altering journey to become Russia's foremost ballet critic. A man for whom the realm of art was largely female in form and whose all-encompassing image of woman constituted the crux of his aesthetic contemplation that crossed over into the personal and libidinal, Volynsky looks ahead to another Petersburg-bred high priest of classical dance, George Balanchine. With an undeniable proclivity toward ballet's female component, Volynsky's dance writings, illuminated by examples of his earlier gendered criticism, invite speculation on how truly ground-breaking and forward-looking this critic is. |