{"product_id":"ballets-magic-kingdom-selected-writings-on-dance-in-russia-1911-1925","title":"Ballet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBallet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAkim Volynsky\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780300124620\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eYale University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2008\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e352\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAkim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg s 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStanley J. Rabinowitz selects and translates forty of Volynsky s articles vivid, 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 Volynsky s 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 Volynsky s life and work against the backdrop of the principal intellectual currents of his time, Volynsky emphasizes the spiritual and ethereal qualities of ballet.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Ballet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925 | Akim Volynsky | Hardcover | 9780300124620 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks F 1785502","offer_id":67704077320344,"sku":"1785502","price":13.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61PtJQBoI1L.jpg?v=1791926563","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/ballets-magic-kingdom-selected-writings-on-dance-in-russia-1911-1925","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}