Balanchine, Celebrating a Life in Dance is a tribute to twentieth-century ballet's most influential choreographer. Even before founding the New York City Ballet with Lincoln Kirstein, George Balanchine had achieved international recognition as a dance innovator. Creating dances for his own company, Balanchine's insights reinvigorated ballet by combining new forms with the traditional while dancing to contemporary musical scores. The works that emerged from this synthesis of styles brought new audiences to dance, as well as new meaning and relevance to the art of dance. To commemorate the centenary of Balanchine's birth, Balanchine explores fifty of the choreographer's greatest works. A host of the most recognised names in dance have come together in this book to pay tribute to George Balanchine in essays that recall their personal experiences with 'Mr B' and offer analysis of his masterpieces.
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Costas has been photographing dance for 35 years with a concentration on the New York City Ballet and George Balanchine. His work is prevalent throughout the dance world and has been exhibited in one-man shows and widely published in newspapers, magazines, playbills, stagebills, and souvenir programs. His photographs have also appeared on CD and record covers, on television, and in several books.
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A fitting tribute to Balanchine and Costas,
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This lavishly illustrated and handsomely designed book is as much a tribute to choreographer George Balanchine as it is to the photographer Costas. True, it is Balanchine who gets centre stage, commemorated for the centenary of his birth with no less than 50 of his ballets, covered by quite an impressive host of authors. Dancers like Maria Tallchief, Suzanne Farrell, Sara Leland, Karin von Aroldingen, Violette Verdy, and Peter Martins, who have been instrumental in bringing Balanchine's work to life or proved an inspiration to "Mr. B." at various moments in his cornucopian career, are joined by the fine fleur of Anglo-saxon dance writers of today - Clive Barnes, Robert Greskovic, Robert Gottlieb, George Jackson, among others - to pay homage to his creative genius.Yet, it is the photographic legacy of Costas - born Costas Cacaroukas in Chios, Greece and a dance photographer for more than 35 years - which turns "Balanchine, Celebrating a Life in Dance" into an irresistible reference work. With more than 370 photographs (color and black and white) showing Balanchine at work or illustrating his ballets as performed by various leading ballet troupes and artists, past and present (New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Paris Opera, Kirov-Mariinsky, Bolshoi), this book will prove indispensable to any ballet lover. A most fitting tribute.
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This book is a cherished treasure in my personal library. The comments of artists who performed each Balanchine Ballet together with the wonderful pictures make it an intimate and beautiful historical document that will be surely enjoyed by dance lovers. A true homage to the great choreographer. Worth it's price.
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The book was all that I hoped for, a copy in excellent condition.
It will make a wonderful gift for a talented ballerina on her fourteenth birthday. The book also arrived quickly. Thank you. Dale Allan Pelton.
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Golden are the days in which advances of technique go hand-in-hand with the evolution of new work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York City Ballet, George Balanchine, Suzanne Farrell, Peter Martins, Kirov Ballet, Karin von Aroldingen, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Merrill Ashley, School of American Ballet, Kyra Nichols, Lincoln Kirstein, Maria Kowroski, Ballets Russes, Don Quixote, Robert Weiss, Swan Lake, American Ballet Theatre, Bolshoi Ballet, Ethan Stiefel, Kay Mazzo, Ballet Review, Helgi Tomasson, Igor Zelensky, Stephanie Saland, Union Jack New!
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Golden are the days in which advances of technique go hand-in-hand with the evolution of new work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ballet mistress, principal dancer, dance critic, first ballet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York City Ballet, George Balanchine, Suzanne Farrell, Peter Martins, Kirov Ballet, Karin von Aroldingen, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Merrill Ashley, School of American Ballet, Kyra Nichols, Lincoln Kirstein, Maria Kowroski, Ballets Russes, Don Quixote, Robert Weiss, Swan Lake, American Ballet Theatre, Bolshoi Ballet, Ethan Stiefel, Kay Mazzo, Ballet Review, Helgi Tomasson, Igor Zelensky, Stephanie Saland, Union Jack New!
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- Swan Lake by Margot Fonteyn on 5 pages
- The Performing Arts (Twentieth-Century Developments in Fashion and Costume) by Alycen Mitchell on page 175, and page 241
- Don Carlos: Vocal Score by Walter Ducloux on page 14, and page 35
- Don Quixote by Marcia Williams on page 194
- Don Carlos by Frederick Schiller on page 14
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