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Dancing on water : a life in ballet, from the Kirov to the ABT / Elena Tchernichova with Joel Lobenthal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tchernichova, Elena.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballerinas--Russia (Federation)--Biography.
- Ballerinas.
- Ballerinas--United States--Biography.
- Dance teachers--United States--Biography.
- Dance teachers.
- American Ballet Theatre.
- Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova.
- Tchernichova, Elena.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The pageantry and drama of a life in dance
- Contents:
- Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: A World Now Lost; 1 | Leningrad; 2 | Make-Believe; 3 | Facts of Life; 4 | Disillustionment; 5 | Rebels; 6 | Nureyev Arrives; 7 | I Start to Teach; 8 | Newlywed; 9 | My Son; 10 | Cultural Exchange; 11 | A Masterpiece; 12 | Seeing the World; 13 | Igor's Choreography; 14 | To the Black Sea; 15 | Restless; 16 | Émigré; Insert; Part II: The New; 17 | Holding Pattern; 18 | New York; 19 | Kirkland and Baryshnikov; 20 | Abt's Stars; 21 | Émigrés and Defectors; 22 | Makarova's ""Bayadère""; 23 | Baryshnikov Takes Over
- 24 | Russian Men25 | Kirkland Cataclysms; 26 | Abt's Problems; 27 | Ferri and Others; 29 | Harsh ""Beauty""; 30 | Glasnost; 31 | Peak; 32 | Baryshnikov's Swan Song; 33 | End of an Era; 34 | Directing Vienna; 35 | Epilogue; Afterword; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-55553-824-X
- OCLC:
- 842919728
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