Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia

by Janice Ross

Book Overview

The powerfully moving story of the Russian Jewish choreographer who used dance to challenge despotism

Everyone has heard of George Balanchine, but few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary and arguably his equal, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300207638
• ISBN13: 9780300207637
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.6"