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1 online resource (521 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Ballet and power: Leonid Yakobson in Soviet Russia -- 2. Beginnings: Learning to be an outsider -- 3. What is to be done with ballet? -- 4. Chilling and thawing: Cold war ballet and the anti-Jewish campaign -- 5. Spartacus -- 6. Dismantling the hero -- 7. A company of his own: Privatizing Soviet ballet -- 8. Totalitarianism, uncertainty, and ballet. |
| Summary |
"Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary, who remained in Lenin's Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singular body of revolutionary dances that spoke to the Soviet condition. His work was often considered so culturally explosive that it was described as "like a bomb going off." Based on untapped archival collections of photographs, films, and writings about Yakobson's work in Moscow and St. Petersburg for the Bolshoi and Kirov ballets, as well as interviews with former dancers, family, and audience members, this illuminating and beautifully written biography brings to life a hidden history of artistic resistance in the USSR through this brave artist, who struggled against officially sanctioned anti-Semitism while offering a vista of hope"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
I͡Akobson, Leonid.
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I͡Akobson, Leonid. |
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Choreographers -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Choreographers. |
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Soviet Union. |
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Biographies.
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Dancers -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Dancers. |
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Ballet -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Ballet. |
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History. |
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Dance -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union.
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Dance -- Political aspects. |
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Dance. |
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History.
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Leonid Yakobson and ballet as resistance in Soviet Russia |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ross, Janice. Like a bomb going off 9780300207637 (DLC) 2014022306 (OCoLC)877370021 |
| ISBN |
9780300210644 (electronic book) |
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0300210647 (electronic book) |
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9780300207637 (hardback) |
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0300207638 (hardback) |
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