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Kendall, Elizabeth, 1947-. Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, 288pp., PAPERBACK, very good. CONTENTS: Preface - Acknowledgments - List of archives - Glossary of Names - Introduction: Petrograd, May 5, 1920 - Chapter I: Caucasus to Capital - Chapter II: Georgi - Chapter III: Theater School: Boys - Chapter IV: Lidochka - Chapter V: Theater School: Girls - Chapter VI: 1917 - Chapter VII: War Communism - Chapter VIII: NEP Economics - Chapter IX: The Young Ballet - Chapter X: The Last Year, Summer to Summer - Chapter XI: A Death, a Life - Endnotes - Bibliography - Index. ISBN 9780190227944.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xvi, 288 pages: illustrations, map; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Maria and Meliton -- Georgi -- Theater School: boys -- Lidochka -- Theater School: girls -- 1917 -- Theater School: the hungry years -- The NEP economy -- The Young ballet -- The last year, summer to summer -- Death and life. Summary; "'Balanchine and the Lost Muse' traces the early lives and friendship of famed choreographer George Balanchine and the extraordinary young ballerina Lidia (Lidochka) Ivanova, from the years just before the 1917 Russian Revolution to Balanchine's escape from Russia in 1924 -- and in the process, sheds new light on a crucial flash point in the histories both of modern ballet and of Russia itself."--Book jacket. Balanchine and the Lost Muse is a dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet, in the crucial time surrounding the Russian revolution: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend, 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, author Elizabeth Kendall sheds new light on a crucial flash point in the history of ballet-one where politics and art meet in legendary St. Petersburg, both culture and nation struggling to reconfigure themselves in the wake of the birth of modern Russia. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Kendall weaves a fascinating tale of this crucial period in the life of the man who would ultimately go on to be the most influential choreographer in modern ballet. Abandoned by his mother on the steps of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet Academy in 1913 at the age of nine, Balanchine spent his formative years studying the art of dance in Russia's tumultuous capital city. It was there, as he struggled to support himself while studying and performing ballet, where Balanchine met Ivanonva, the first dancer with whom he would ever compose and dance. A talented and bold dancer who grew close to the Bolshevik elite in her adolescent years, Ivanova was a source of great inspiration to Balanchine-both during their youth together, and later in life, after her tragic and mysterious death just days before she had planned to leave Russia with Balanchine and their friends in 1924. Although he would have a great number of muses, many of them lovers, the dark beauty of his dear friend Lidochka haunted much of his work for years to come. Part biography and part urban cultural history, Balanchine and the Lost Muse presents a sweeping account of the heyday of modern ballet and the culture at the heart of the unmoored ideals, futuristic visions, and human decadence that characterized the Russian Revolution. Subjects; Balanchine, George. Ivanova, Lidiia -1924. Choreographers - United States - Biography. Ballet European history: from c 1900 -. Russia. Inter-war period, 1918-1939. MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Dance. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Ballet. 1 Kg.

2nd edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xvi, 288 pages: illustrations, map; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Maria and Meliton -- Georgi -- Theater School: boys -- Lidochka -- Theater School: girls -- 1917 -- Theater School: the hungry years -- The NEP economy -- The Young ballet -- The last year, summer to summer -- Death and life. Summary; "'Balanchine and the Lost Muse' traces the early lives and friendship of famed choreographer George Balanchine and the extraordinary young ballerina Lidia (Lidochka) Ivanova, from the years just before the 1917 Russian Revolution to Balanchine's escape from Russia in 1924 -- and in the process, sheds new light on a crucial flash point in the histories both of modern ballet and of Russia itself."--Book jacket. Balanchine and the Lost Muse is a dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet, in the crucial time surrounding the Russian revolution: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend, 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, author Elizabeth Kendall sheds new light on a crucial flash point in the history of ballet-one where politics and art meet in legendary St. Petersburg, both culture and nation struggling to reconfigure themselves in the wake of the birth of modern Russia. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Kendall weaves a fascinating tale of this crucial period in the life of the man who would ultimately go on to be the most influential choreographer in modern ballet. Abandoned by his mother on the steps of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet Academy in 1913 at the age of nine, Balanchine spent his formative years studying the art of dance in Russia's tumultuous capital city. It was there, as he struggled to support himself while studying and performing ballet, where Balanchine met Ivanonva, the first dancer with whom he would ever compose and dance. A talented and bold dancer who grew close to the Bolshevik elite in her adolescent years, Ivanova was a source of great inspiration to Balanchine-both during their youth together, and later in life, after her tragic and mysterious death just days before she had planned to leave Russia with Balanchine and their friends in 1924. Although he would have a great number of muses, many of them lovers, the dark beauty of his dear friend Lidochka haunted much of his work for years to come. Part biography and part urban cultural history, Balanchine and the Lost Muse presents a sweeping account of the heyday of modern ballet and the culture at the heart of the unmoored ideals, futuristic visions, and human decadence that characterized the Russian Revolution. Subjects; Balanchine, George. Ivanova, Lidiia -1924. Choreographers - United States - Biography. Ballet European history: from c 1900 -. Russia. Inter-war period, 1918-1939. MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Dance. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Ballet. 1 Kg.

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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xvi, 288 pages: illustrations, map; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Maria and Meliton -- Georgi -- Theater School: boys -- Lidochka -- Theater School: girls -- 1917 -- Theater School: the hungry years -- The NEP economy -- The Young ballet -- The last year, summer to summer -- Death and life. Summary; "'Balanchine and the Lost Muse' traces the early lives and friendship of famed choreographer George Balanchine and the extraordinary young ballerina Lidia (Lidochka) Ivanova, from the years just before the 1917 Russian Revolution to Balanchine's escape from Russia in 1924 -- and in the process, sheds new light on a crucial flash point in the histories both of modern ballet and of Russia itself."--Book jacket. Balanchine and the Lost Muse is a dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet, in the crucial time surrounding the Russian revolution: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend, 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, author Elizabeth Kendall sheds new light on a crucial flash point in the history of ballet-one where politics and art meet in legendary St. Petersburg, both culture and nation struggling to reconfigure themselves in the wake of the birth of modern Russia. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Kendall weaves a fascinating tale of this crucial period in the life of the man who would ultimately go on to be the most influential choreographer in modern ballet. Abandoned by his mother on the steps of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet Academy in 1913 at the age of nine, Balanchine spent his formative years studying the art of dance in Russia's tumultuous capital city. It was there, as he struggled to support himself while studying and performing ballet, where Balanchine met Ivanonva, the first dancer with whom he would ever compose and dance. A talented and bold dancer who grew close to the Bolshevik elite in her adolescent years, Ivanova was a source of great inspiration to Balanchine-both during their youth together, and later in life, after her tragic and mysterious death just days before she had planned to leave Russia with Balanchine and their friends in 1924. Although he would have a great number of muses, many of them lovers, the dark beauty of his dear friend Lidochka haunted much of his work for years to come. Part biography and part urban cultural history, Balanchine and the Lost Muse presents a sweeping account of the heyday of modern ballet and the culture at the heart of the unmoored ideals, futuristic visions, and human decadence that characterized the Russian Revolution. Subjects; Balanchine, George. Ivanova, Lidiia -1924. Choreographers - United States - Biography. Ballet European history: from c 1900 -. Russia. Inter-war period, 1918-1939. MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Dance. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Ballet. 1 Kg.

2nd edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xvi, 288 pages: illustrations, map; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Maria and Meliton -- Georgi -- Theater School: boys -- Lidochka -- Theater School: girls -- 1917 -- Theater School: the hungry years -- The NEP economy -- The Young ballet -- The last year, summer to summer -- Death and life. Summary; "'Balanchine and the Lost Muse' traces the early lives and friendship of famed choreographer George Balanchine and the extraordinary young ballerina Lidia (Lidochka) Ivanova, from the years just before the 1917 Russian Revolution to Balanchine's escape from Russia in 1924 -- and in the process, sheds new light on a crucial flash point in the histories both of modern ballet and of Russia itself."--Book jacket. Balanchine and the Lost Muse is a dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet, in the crucial time surrounding the Russian revolution: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend, 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, author Elizabeth Kendall sheds new light on a crucial flash point in the history of ballet-one where politics and art meet in legendary St. Petersburg, both culture and nation struggling to reconfigure themselves in the wake of the birth of modern Russia. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Kendall weaves a fascinating tale of this crucial period in the life of the man who would ultimately go on to be the most influential choreographer in modern ballet. Abandoned by his mother on the steps of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet Academy in 1913 at the age of nine, Balanchine spent his formative years studying the art of dance in Russia's tumultuous capital city. It was there, as he struggled to support himself while studying and performing ballet, where Balanchine met Ivanonva, the first dancer with whom he would ever compose and dance. A talented and bold dancer who grew close to the Bolshevik elite in her adolescent years, Ivanova was a source of great inspiration to Balanchine-both during their youth together, and later in life, after her tragic and mysterious death just days before she had planned to leave Russia with Balanchine and their friends in 1924. Although he would have a great number of muses, many of them lovers, the dark beauty of his dear friend Lidochka haunted much of his work for years to come. Part biography and part urban cultural history, Balanchine and the Lost Muse presents a sweeping account of the heyday of modern ballet and the culture at the heart of the unmoored ideals, futuristic visions, and human decadence that characterized the Russian Revolution. Subjects; Balanchine, George. Ivanova, Lidiia -1924. Choreographers - United States - Biography. Ballet European history: from c 1900 -. Russia. Inter-war period, 1918-1939. MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Dance. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Ballet. 1 Kg.

XVI, 288 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's hardcover with dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition thus. Balanchine and the Lost Muse Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer Special Collection by Elizabeth Kendall. Published by Oxford University Press in 2015. Paperback. What makes this title so special is its limited availability. - Publishers Weekly. Collectible item in very fine condition.