Dancing In Petersburg

Author : Matilʹda Feliksovna Kshesinskai︠a︡
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ballerinas
ISBN : 1852731052

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Dancing in Petersburg by Matilʹda Feliksovna Kshesinskai︠a︡ Pdf

There have been wonderful books about dancing, and superbly evocative ones about old Russia: but here the two themes are fascinatingly wedded. For these are the memoirs of the prima ballerina assoluta of the imperial Russian ballet, Mathilde Kschessinska (the Princess Romanovsky-Krassinsky), with whom, at her first appearance, the Tsarevitch Nicholas fell in love. As a dancer she had few rivals: apart from her marvellous technique she had a star personality, and was adored by the public. At the height of her fame she appeared in London with Diaghilev's company and danced with Nijinsky: she preferred, however, to dance in Russia, and for twenty years she was the adored darling of the great world of Petersburg. After the Revolution, when she was living as an emigre in the South of France, Diaghilev begged her to dance for him in his new Paris season, but to no avail. Kschessinska's memoirs fall roughly into three parts: the glittering fairy-story of her life as prima ballerina in Russia; her flight during the Revolution; and the era in which she established herself as a teacher of the highest rank. It is an extraordinary self-revelation of a great dancer and an utterly human person.

Author : Mathilde Kschessinska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 178987078X

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Dancing in Petersburg by Mathilde Kschessinska Pdf

Mathilde Kschessinska, Prima ballerina of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatre in pre-Revolutionary Russia, tells her life story in these moving and dramatic memoirs.

Author : Mathilde Kschessinska
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1977-08-21
Category : Dancers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036977523

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Dancing In Petersburg by Mathilde Kschessinska Pdf

Author : Matilʹda Feliksovna Kshesinskai︠a︡
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Dancers
ISBN : OCLC:60410904

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Dancing in Petersburg by Matilʹda Feliksovna Kshesinskai︠a︡ Pdf

Author : Mathilde Kschessinska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0359732860

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Dancing in Petersburg by Mathilde Kschessinska Pdf

Mathilde Kschessinska, Prima ballerina of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatre, tells her life story in these moving and dramatic memoirs. Born in Imperial Russia in 1872, Kschessinska came from a family of dancers and was trained in ballet. Noted as a great talent from youth, Kschessinska's destiny was shaped by her debut performance: she won the praise of visiting Russian royalty and met the young man who was to become the future Tsar Nicholas II. The two became romantically involved for three years, until the young Grand Duke was betrothed to the future Empress Alexandra. Perhaps the most dramatic and harrowing passages of this memoir date to the Russian Revolution: the sudden plunge of the nation into chaos and anarchy, and the danger the author was in as a known associate of Russia's royal family, is told. By sheer fortune, Kschessinska and her husband were able to escape to France, but not after a series of close calls amid the melee of Russia's devastating civil war.

Author : Mathilde F. Romanovsky-Krassinsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:630797253

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Dancing in Petersburg by Mathilde F. Romanovsky-Krassinsky Pdf

Author : Mathilde Kschessinska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0359732879

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Dancing in Petersburg by Mathilde Kschessinska Pdf

Mathilde Kschessinska, Prima ballerina of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatre, tells her life story in these moving and dramatic memoirs. Born in Imperial Russia in 1872, Kschessinska came from a family of dancers and was trained in ballet. Noted as a great talent from youth, Kschessinska's destiny was shaped by her debut performance: she won the praise of visiting Russian royalty and met the young man who was to become the future Tsar Nicholas II. The two became romantically involved for three years, until the young Grand Duke was betrothed to the future Empress Alexandra. Perhaps the most dramatic and harrowing passages of this memoir date to the Russian Revolution: the sudden plunge of the nation into chaos and anarchy, and the danger the author was in as a known associate of Russia's royal family, is told. By sheer fortune, Kschessinska and her husband were able to escape to France, but not after a series of close calls amid the melee of Russia's devastating civil war.

Author : Vera Krasovskai͡a
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813028310

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Vaganova by Vera Krasovskai͡a Pdf

"Vera Krasovskaya, who knew Vaganova intimately and was a direct eyewitness to many of the described incidents, provides a window into the personality and thinking of this great teacher and brings her own unique insight into the world of classical ballet during the era of Tsarist Russia and the early Soviet years."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : J. E. Crawford Flitch
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338108371

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Modern dancing and dancers by J. E. Crawford Flitch Pdf

This book is concerned mostly with the ballet of both the Russian and English schools. Where other dance styles are mentioned they are considered with reference to ballet. Several famous ballerinas are mentioned, such as Anna Pavlova. There are also illustrations.

Author : Jean Georges Noverre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Dance
ISBN : OCLC:84364468

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Letters on Dancing and Ballets by Jean Georges Noverre Pdf

Author : Coryne Hall
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752488233

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Imperial Dancer by Coryne Hall Pdf

Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971) was the mistress of three Russian Grand Dukes and the greatest ballerina of her generation. She is in almost every book about the Romanovs, but so many myths surround her that she has become the stuff of legend. After her own memoirs, this title aims to reveal the real story by looking at what she did not say.

Author : Elizabeth Clara Sander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ballroom dancing
ISBN : UOM:39015073932876

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Social Dancing in Peter the Great's Russia by Elizabeth Clara Sander Pdf

Author : Vera Sergeevna Kostrovit︠s︡kai︠a︡
Publisher : David Leonard
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015035646580

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School of Classical Dance by Vera Sergeevna Kostrovit︠s︡kai︠a︡ Pdf

'School of Classical Dance' is the official textbook of the Vaganova School in St. Petersburg, and takes the student and teacher from the basic concepts of the syllabus to the most complex exercises taught at the end of the eight-year course. A thorough and logical presentation of the classical vocabulary, from its basic forms to advanced variations, is followed by a sample lesson for a senior class. The eight-year syllabus of the Vaganova School, now adopted by almost all Russian ballet schools, is then given in full. The authors were both long-time teachers at the Vaganova School. "A book which is to be treasured, one of the great technical manuals of our time" - the Dancing Times.

Author : Arabella Stanger
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810144101

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Dancing on Violent Ground by Arabella Stanger Pdf

The politics of theater dance is commonly theorized in relation to bodily freedom, resistance, agitation, or repair. This book questions those utopian imaginaries, arguing that the visions and sensations of canonical Euro-American choreographies carry hidden forms of racial violence, not in the sense of the physical or psychological traumas arising in the practice of these arts but through the histories of social domination that materially underwrite them. Developing a new theory of choreographic space, Arabella Stanger shows how embodied forms of hope promised in ballet and progressive dance modernisms conceal and depend on spatial operations of imperial, colonial, and racial subjection. Stanger unearths dance’s violent ground by interrogating the expansionist fantasies of Marius Petipa’s imperial ballet, settler colonial and corporate land practices in the modern dance of Martha Graham and George Balanchine, reactionary discourses of the human in Rudolf von Laban’s and Oskar Schlemmer’s movement geometries; Merce Cunningham’s experimentalism as a white settler fantasy of the land of the free, and the imperial amnesia of Boris Charmatz’s interventions into metropolitan museums. Drawing on materialist thought, critical race theory, and indigenous studies, Stanger ultimately advocates for dance studies to adopt a position of “critical negativity,” an analytical attitude attuned to how dance’s exuberant modeling of certain forms of life might provide cover for life-negating practices. Bold in its arguments and rigorous in its critique, Dancing on Violent Ground asks how performance scholars can develop a practice of thinking hopefully, without expunging history from their site of analysis.

Author : Matilʹda Feliksovna Kshesinskai︠a︡
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:84617835

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Dancing in Petersburg by Matilʹda Feliksovna Kshesinskai︠a︡ Pdf