Balanchine and Kirstein's American Enterprise

ISBN-13: 9780190607418 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 312 str.

James Steichen

Opis

Challenging the mythologies surrounding the early years of the Balanchine-Kirstein enterprise, this book weaves a new and definitive account of a crucial period in dance history.

Recenzje

This book dramatically widens our understanding of the birth of American-style ballet in the 1930s, by looking equally at the usual hero, Balanchine, and at his younger partner and fellow-dreamer, Lincoln Kirstein. Steichen's meticulous examination of the two men's often self-contradictory 'enterprise' offers the pleasures of great scholarship - freshness, transparency, intelligence - coupled with exhilarating prose.

O autorze

James Steichen grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and attended the University of Virginia and University of Chicago before completing a PhD in musicology from Princeton University. Prior to his doctoral studies he worked for five years in the development office at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and he currently serves as Director of Individual Gifts at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.