And Then Came Dance

Author : Stanley J. Rabinowitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190943363

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And Then Came Dance by Stanley J. Rabinowitz Pdf

Presenting for the first time Akim Volynsky's (1861-1926) pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida Rubinstein, and Lou Andreas-Salome, And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the origins of Volynsky's life-altering journey to become Russia's foremost ballet critic. A man for whom the realm of art was largely female in form and whose all-encompassing image of woman constituted the crux of his aesthetic contemplation that crossed over into the personal and libidinal, Volynsky looks ahead to another Petersburg-bred high priest of classical dance, George Balanchine. With an undeniable proclivity toward ballet's female component, Volynsky's dance writings, illuminated by examples of his earlier gendered criticism, invite speculation on how truly ground-breaking and forward-looking this critic is.

Author : Stanley J. Rabinowitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190943387

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And Then Came Dance by Stanley J. Rabinowitz Pdf

Presenting for the first time Akim Volynsky's (1861-1926) pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida Rubinstein, and Lou Andreas-Salome, And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the origins of Volynsky's life-altering journey to become Russia's foremost ballet critic. A man for whom the realm of art was largely female in form and whose all-encompassing image of woman constituted the crux of his aesthetic contemplation that crossed over into the personal and libidinal, Volynsky looks ahead to another Petersburg-bred high priest of classical dance, George Balanchine. With an undeniable proclivity toward ballet's female component, Volynsky's dance writings, illuminated by examples of his earlier gendered criticism, invite speculation on how truly ground-breaking and forward-looking this critic is.

Author : A. L. Volynskiĭ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Ballerinas
ISBN : 0190943408

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And Then Came Dance by A. L. Volynskiĭ Pdf

"At 49 years old, Russian literary scholar, art historian, and journalist Akim Volynsky (1861-1926) experienced a turning point in his intellectual and emotional life, embarking on a journey to become the foremost ballet critic in Russia of his time. His corpus of nearly 300 reviews of women dancers, as well as the performances that graced St. Petersburg's storied Maryinsky Theater between 1911 and 1924, helped catapult two generations of exceptional women achievers to a status they had not previously enjoyed. But Volynsky's depiction of the body beautiful on stage, represented here by 34 previously untranslated articles about a dozen ballerinas, was preceded by his earlier attention to women in literature, in art, and in real life. Presenting for the first time Volynsky's pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida Rubinstein, and Lou Andreas-Salome, And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the origins of Volynsky's life-altering interest in dance, and in female dancers in particular. A man for whom the realm of art was largely female in form and whose all-encompassing image of woman constituted the crux of his aesthetic contemplation that crossed over into the personal and libidinal, Volynsky looks ahead to another Petersburg-bred high priest of classical dance, George Balanchine. Indeed, with an undeniable proclivity toward ballet's female component, Volynsky's dance writings, illuminated here by examples of his earlier gendered criticism, invite speculation on how truly ground-breaking and forward-looking this understudied critic is."--

Author : Sue Monk Kidd
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780061144905

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The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd Pdf

"I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised, and, in fact, a little terrified, when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening." ––Sue Monk Kidd For years, Sue Monk Kidd was a conventionally religious woman. Then, in the late 1980s, Kidd experienced an unexpected awakening, and began a journey toward a feminine spirituality. With the exceptional storytelling skills that have helped make her name, author of When the Heart Waits tells her very personal story of the fear, anger, healing, and freedom she experienced on the path toward the wholeness that many women have lost in the church. From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore, to monastery retreats and to rituals in the caves of Crete, she reveals a new level of feminine spiritual consciousness for all women– one that retains a meaningful connection with the "deep song of Christianity," embraces the sacredness of ordinary women's experience, and has the power to transform in the most positive ways every fundamental relationship in a woman's life– her marriage, her career, and her religion. This Plus edition paperback includes a recent interview with the author conducted by the book's editor Michael Maudlin.

Author : George Borrow
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547351221

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The Songs of Ranild by George Borrow Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Songs of Ranild" by George Borrow. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : A. L. Volynskiĭ
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780300142495

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Ballet's Magic Kingdom by A. L. Volynskiĭ Pdf

Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburgs liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book, the first English edition of his provocative and influential writings, provides a striking look at life inside the world of Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history. Stanley J. Rabinowitz selects and translates forty of Volynskys articlesvivid, eyewitness accounts that sparkle with details about the careers and personalities of such dance luminaries as Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Fokine, Tamara Karsavina, and George Balanchine, at that time a young dancer in the Maryinsky company whose keen musical sense and creative interpretive power Volynsky was one of the first to recognize. Rabinowitz also translates Volynskys magnum opus, The Book of Exaltations, an elaborate meditation on classical dance technique that is at once a primer and an ideological treatise. Throughout his writings, Rabinowitz argues in his critical introduction, which sets Volynskys life and work against the backdrop of the principal intellectual currents of his time, Volynsky emphasizes the spiritual and ethereal qualities of ballet.

Author : Kelly Conaboy
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781538717851

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The Particulars of Peter by Kelly Conaboy Pdf

"This might be one of the month’s, if not the year’s, sweetest books — zaniest, too.” ―The Washington Post "A hilarious addition to the dogoir canon.” ―People "Perhaps the greatest love story ever told.” ―Refinery29 "The feel-good book the world needs." —PopSugar From one of the Internet's most original voices, a hilarious journey through the odd corners of obsessive dog ownership and the author's own infatuation with her perfect dog Peter. The author met Peter in the spring of 2017. He -- calm, puppy-eyed, with the heart of a poet and the soul of, also, a poet -- came to her first as a foster. He was unable to stay with his previously assigned foster for reasons that are none of your business, but which we will tell you were related to frequent urination. The rescue needed someone free of the sort of responsibilities that would force her to regularly leave the house for either work or socializing, and a writer was the natural choice. Thus began a love story for the ages. The Particulars of Peter is a funny exploration of the joy found in loving a dog so much it makes you feel like you're going to combust, and the author's potentially codependent relationship with her own sweet dog, Peter. Readers will follow Peter and his owner to Woofstock, "the largest outdoor festival for dogs in North America," and accompany them to lessons in Canine Freestyle, a sport where dogs perform a routine set to music, creating the illusion that they're dancing with their owners. From learning about Peter's DNA, to seeing if dogs can sense the presence of ghosts, The Particulars of Peter will give readers a smart, entertaining respite from the harsh world of humans into the funny little world of dogs. Readers will accompany this lovable duo through exciting trips, lessons, quiet moments of connection, and probably a failure or two. By fusing memoir and infotainment, The Particulars of Peter promises to refresh the perennially popular dog lit category in a scrumptiously bighearted barnstormer of a book.

Author : Emmaly Wiederholt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0998247804

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Beauty Is Experience by Emmaly Wiederholt Pdf

Beauty is Experience is a collaboration between dancer/writer Emmaly Wiederholt and photographer Gregory Bartning. For more than two years, they collected interviews and photographs of dancers over age 50 along the West Coast. Spanning from Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area to Portland and Seattle, the culmination includes over 50 interviews with dancers ranging in age from 50 to 95, and ranging in practice from ballet and Argentine tango to African and contact improvisation.

Author : Sondra Stanford
Publisher : New York : Silhouette Books ; Markham, Ont. : Paperjacks
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Romance fiction
ISBN : 0671570889

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And Then Came Dawn by Sondra Stanford Pdf

Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Utah
ISBN : HARVARD:32044043286210

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History of Utah by Hubert Howe Bancroft Pdf

Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft,Alfred Bates
Publisher : San Francisco : History Company
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Utah
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2X57

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History of Utah, 1540-1886 by Hubert Howe Bancroft,Alfred Bates Pdf

Author : Charles Reade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : English fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5ZCZ

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Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade Pdf

Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : UCSD:31822031022593

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The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Utah. 1889 by Hubert Howe Bancroft Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924096459940

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The Heathen Woman's Friend by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HW28OL

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Belgravia by Anonim Pdf