George Balanchine
The scene-by-scene stories of the most popular ballets, old and new Authored by one of the ballet's most respected experts, this volume includes scene-by-scene retellings of the most popular classic and contemporary ballets, as performed by the ... [... more]
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George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker
 Author: Robert Gottlieb Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 792.82092 EAN: 9780060750701 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0060750707 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2004-10-13 [... more]
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Lincoln Kirstein
Lincoln Kirstein founded the School of American Ballet in 1934 with George Balanchine, and in 1948 the two men established the New York City Ballet, for which Kirstein served as general director until l989. He wrote more than five hundred books, ... [... more]
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Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb is the former Editor-in-Chief of Alfred A. Knopf and of The New Yorker. He is the dance critic for The New York Observer and author of George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker. He has previously edited Reading Jazz, Reading Lyrics ... [... more]
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Seven
Additional Features: For fans and filmmakers alike, New Line's Platinum Edition of Seven is one of the most comprehensive DVDs ever released. Four feature-length commentaries accompany the film on Disc 1; perhaps most interesting are the comments of [... more]
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101 Stories of the Great Ballets: The scene-by-scene ...
Save Your Money: I purchased this book and now regret it. So many of the ballets decribed are minor pieces that are rarely performed any more, while many major classic ballets that are still performed and/or that are important in dance history are [... more]
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Farrell, Suzanne: Ellusive Muse
From Amazon.com: Romantic triangles. Unconsummated passion. Jealousy. Revenge. Just another day offstage at the New York City Ballet for ballerina Suzanne Farrell and her mentor, legendary choreographer George Balanchine. Elusive Muse traces the [... more]
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White Swan, Black Swan
starkly beautiful: "White Swan, Black Swan" is one of the most gorgeous collections of short stories I have ever had the pleasure of coming across. Sharp's prose is simple and elegant, chronicling the lives of her characters with such intensity [... more]
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Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique
From Amazon.com: George Balanchine, world-renowned choreographer and founder of the New York City Ballet, made a tremendous impact on the history of American dance by ushering in the era of neoclassical ballet defined by spartan costumes, technical [... more]
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Tolstoy's Waltz
DILETTANTES AND DABBLINGS: Ms. Auerbach, an artiste of incredible dimension, makes an entertainingly good case for these intriguing piano snippets and lieder--- and compositions that are sometimes much more than simply this--- by fascinating Russian [... more]
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Favourite Encores
For ballet fans, an excellent "Valse Fantaisie": George Balanchine referred to Mikhail Glinka as "the Mozart of Russia." So it's not surprising that he choregraphed Glinka's "Valse Fantaisie" not once, but twice. I'm more [... more]
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George Balanchine: Jewels
Beautiful dances, beautiful dancers: It is a huge pity that back in 1977 PBS elected to record only excerpts from New York City Ballet's staging of Jewels. For years that Dance in America broadcast has been the only performance of the ballet available on [... more]
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