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Mr. B - George Balanchine's Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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Mr. B - George Balanchine's Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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From the author of Apollo's Angels, the first major biography of
the figure who modernised dance: an intimate portrait of the man
behind the mythology, set against the vibrant backdrop of the
century that shaped him Balanchine's radical approach to
choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly evocative
ballets made him a lasting legend. Today, nearly thirty years after
his death, the man is still so revered that the mysteries of his
biography are often overlooked. Who was George Balanchine? Born in
Russia under the last Czar, Balanchine experienced the upheavals of
World War One, the Russian Revolution, exile, World War Two and the
cultural Cold War; he was part of the Russian modernist moment, a
key player in Paris in the 1920s, and in New York he revolutionized
ballet, pressing it to the forefront of modernism and making it
serious and popular art. His influences were myriad. He considered
himself Georgian, yet he did not step foot in his ancestral
homeland until he was in his fifties. He was deeply influenced by
the cold grandeur and sensuous beauty of the Orthodox Church, but
equally absorbed by the new rhythms and dance steps coming out of
Harlem in the 1930s. He collaborated broadly, with figures like
Diaghilev and Stravinsky. A man of muses, Balanchine was married
five times, always to young dancers, and consumed by many other
loves in between. The difficulties of his life - personal losses,
bouts of ill health, debilitating loneliness and dark moods of
despair - resonate in his dances, which speak so poignantly of love
and loss, and yet the full implications for his art remain
unexplored. Now for the first time we look beyond the myth of 'Mr
B' - the mask which Balanchine himself helped to create - to see
'Mr B' the man.
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