Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer

by Elizabeth Kendall and Kendall

Book Overview

Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend and extraordinary ballerina Liidia (Lidochka) Ivanova.

Tracing the lives and friendship of these two dancers from years just before the 1917 Russian Revolution to Balanchine's escape from Russia in 1924, Elizabeth Kendall's Balanchine & the Lost Muse sheds new light on a crucial flash...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019995934X
• ISBN13: 9780199959341
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"