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Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet (Hardcover)
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Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet (Hardcover)
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Martha Ullman West illustrates how American ballet developed over
the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating
in the courts of Europe into a stylistically diverse expression of
a democratic culture. West places at center stage two artists who
were instrumental to this story: Todd Bolender and Janet
Reed.Lifelong friends, Bolender (1914-2006) and Reed (1916-2000)
were part of a generation of dancers who navigated the Great
Depression, World War II, and the vibrant cultural scene of postwar
New York City. They danced in the works of choreographers Lew and
Willam Christensen, Eugene Loring, Agnes de Mille, Catherine
Littlefield, Ruthanna Boris, and others who West argues were just
as responsible for the direction of American ballet as the
legendary George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. The stories of
Bolender, Reed, and their contemporaries also demonstrate that the
flowering of American ballet was not simply a New York phenomenon.
West includes little-known details about how Bolender and Reed laid
the foundations for Seattle's Pacific Northwest Ballet in the 1970s
and how Bolender transformed the Kansas City Ballet into a highly
respected professional company soon after. Passionate in their
desire to dance and create dances, Bolender and Reed committed
their lives to passing along their hard-won knowledge, training,
and work. This book celebrates two unsung trailblazers who were
pivotal to the establishment of ballet in America from one coast to
the other.
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