Balanchine, a biography
Written with wit, insight, and candor, Balanchine is a book that will delight lovers of biography as well as those with a special interest in dance. For this edition the author has added a thoughtful yet dramatic account of the working out of Balanchine's legacy, from the making of his controversial will to the present day. The author explores the intriguing legal, financial, and institutional subplots that unfolded after the death of the greatest choreographer of the century, but the central plot of his epilogue is the aesthetic issue: In the absence of their creator, can the ballets retain their wondrous vitality? Taper illuminates the fascinating transmission of Balanchine's masterworks from one generation to another, an unprecented legacy in the history of ballet, that most evanescent of the arts. --Amazon.com
Print Book, English, 1996, ©1984
2nd pbk. ed View all formats and editions
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1996, ©1984
Biography
x, 458 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780520206397, 0520206398
36405361
Choreographer in his element
Childhood in Russia
Monkey-student
First choreography
Ballet master to Diaghilev
Apollo and Prodigal Son
Rootless years
But first a school
Ace job on the terp angle
Second beginnings
God creates, woman inspires, and man assembles
Making of Agon-photo essay
Come back, come back, come back
Essential tradition
What's the matter with now?
At seventy
Appetite for renewal
Last year
Choreographing the future
Includes index