Like a Bomb Going Off. Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia

Name: Like a Bomb Going Off. Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia
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Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside the USSR know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary, who remained in Lenin's Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singular body of revolutionary dances that spoke to the Soviet condition. His work was often considered so culturally explosive that it was described as like a bomb going off. Based on untapped archival collections of photographs, films and writings about Yakobson's work in Moscow and St. Petersburg for the Bolshoi and Kirov ballets, as well as interviews with former dancers, family and audience members, this illuminating and beautifully written biography brings to life a hidden history of artistic resistance in the USSR through this brave artist, who struggled against officially sanctioned anti-Semitism while offering a vista of hope.

Артикул

3380500

Издательство

Yale University Press

Тип обложки

твердый переплет

Автор

Ross Janice

Год

2015

Страниц

536