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"The New York Times called him "the Shakespeare of dancing." He appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century. His radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly imaginative ballets made him a legend. Yet, Balanchine's life was as dramatic as his art, coinciding with some of the biggest historical events of his time. Born in Russia under the last Czar, Balanchine experienced the upheavals of World War I, the Russian Revolution, World War II, exile, and the Cold War. He co-founded the New York City Ballet and revolutionized dance in America, pressing it to the forefront of modernism and making it serious and popular art. A man of many muses, Balanchine was married five times and consumed by other loves in between. Both the passions that animated him and the difficulties of his life--personal losses, bouts of ill health, and dark moods of despair--resonate in his more than 100 ballets, which speak of love, loss, mortality, and the transformative power of art. Nearly forty years after his death the full scale of Balanchine's achievement remains unexplored. Jennifer Homans, who studied with Balanchine and has had unprecedented access to his papers and many of those who knew him, has researched every facet of Balanchine's life and times. As much a biography as a vast history of the twentieth century through the lens of one of its greatest artists, Mr. B is the definitive biography by ballet's definitive writer"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: RUSSIA
• ch. 1 Happy Families
• ch. 2 Icons of Childhood
• ch. 3 War and Peace
• ch. 4 Cloud in Trousers
• RUSSIA ABROAD
• ch. 5 Weimar Culture
• ch. 6 Big Serge
• ch. 7 Apollo
• ch. 8 Magic Mountain
• AMERICA
• ch. 9 Lincoln
• ch. 10 New York
• ch. 11 Time of Troubles
• ch. 12 Zorina
• ch. 13 Balanchine's War
• ch. 14 Lincoln's War
• ch. 15 Company
• ch. 16 Disciplining the Body
• ch. 17 Tanny and Jerry

• ch. 18 Agon
• ch. 19 Cold War
• ch. 20 USSR
• ch. 21 Master Builder
• ch. 22 Don Quixote
• ch. 23 Alabaster Princess
• ch. 24 Legion of Angels
• END OF THE DANCE
• ch. 25 Aging
• ch. 26 Time to Go!
• ch. 27 Mortal End
• ch. 28 Funeral March
• ch. 29 Adagio Lamentoso.

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Author/Creator:

Homans, Jennifer, 1960- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th century [by Homans, J.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Mr. B [by Homans, J.] (First edition; New York : Random House, 2022 — ISBN 9780812994315; LCCN 2022002682)

Subjects:

Balanchine, George

Ballet — History — 20th century

Choreography — History — 20th century

Choreographers — United States — Biography

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

GV1785.B32 H66 2022eb

ISBNs:

9780812994315 (electronic bk.)
0812994310 (electronic bk.)
9780812994308 [Invalid]
0812994302 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1293917545

Other Control Numbers:

3165717 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp303186694