Maximova & Vasiliev at the Bolshoi

By Roberta Lazzarini

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0903102625
• ISBN13: 9780903102629
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Dance Books Ltd
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.8" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

SENSATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS!

Just look at the photographs and tell me who is dancing today like this pair! The answer: Nobody!>From these photographs I'd give all that I own to have seen them dance in person just once. <p>There's page after page of beautiful photographs, sensational photographs that I look at for hours. The book is so well designed too. I don't see anything wrong with the text . I even enjoyed the ackowledgements and anyone who had anything to do with the book should be very proud to be involved in such an endeavour This book makes you feel great to be alive and watching ballet and dance even though I suspect we'll never see the like of Maximova and Vasiliev onstage again.

A wonderful book on wonderful subjects

This beautiful book, with wonderful photographs, and very rare photgraphs, is a tribute to the enduring partnership, both onstage and off, of Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev, who graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet School and danced with the Bolshoi Ballet for over three decades, whilst still becoming famous in the free world by their performances with various ballet companies in Europe and the Americas. Allowed to come and go freely whilst others defected around them they formed a unique partnership that will never be equalled.It's a tastefully designed book, clearly a labor of love, not only by the author but the many she acknowledges the help of, which I can look at for hours because of the extraordinary photographic content, which needs almost no text. Which is just as well, because, to me, it is written as an almost unconscious parody, with the breathlessness of a true and devoted fan, in the style of a 'voice over' on a flickering black and white soviet documentary about grain harvesting in the Ukraine - and about as interesting. Surely Maximova and Vasiliev are more three dimensional than they are made to appear in this book. It's almost as if the author is afraid of her subjects. Still, this book is worth having for the photographs which speak for themselves.

an event in dance publishing

a stunning collection of magnificent pictures and texts spanning the entire career of dance's longest ever partnership. Particularly impressive is the entire design lay-out of this very handsome tome - you can really see the development of these two dancers both as artists and as people through the excellent choice of photographic material (the áuthor obviously has an extraordinary collection of material if this is only a small part of it.) This will very soon become a collectors item - get it while you can.