Praise for Balanchine Variations "If you like Balanchine, you must
read Nancy Goldner's Balanchine Variations. She has the best ear
for music and dance musicality of any dance critic writing
today."--Alastair Macaulay, New York Times "The book is modest and,
at the same time, utterly self-assured. Anyone who cares about
Balanchine should buy it immediately."--Joan Acocella, New Yorker
"A remarkable new book. Immediately takes its place among the
half-dozen or so essential books on George Balanchine."--Robert
Gottlieb in the New York Review of Books In this deliciously
evocative new volume, Nancy Goldner returns to offer in-depth
discussions of twenty more of George Balanchine's ballets. As in
the critically acclaimed Balanchine Variations, Goldner's focus is
not on history or biography but on the dances themselves: the
technique, the coordination with music, the storytelling, and the
evolution of Balanchine's style. This encore performance features
provocative and insightful descriptions and analyses of a group of
works spanning forty years (1941-1981) and includes profiles of
Ballet Imperial, Bugaku, Coppelia, Divertimento No. 15, La Valse,
Symphony in C, and Union Jack, among many others. Inspiring,
exquisite, and thought-provoking, More Balanchine Variations is
both a delightful meditation on and an essential critical
examination of some of the twentieth century's most extraordinary
works of art. "Pure joy. Even more exciting and wonderfully
imaginative than the author's previous volume, this collection of
personal essays about some of George Balanchine's most beloved
ballets takes a reader through deep levels of Balanchine's
sensibility. Nancy Goldner illuminates the organization of the
works, their construction on the level of dance technique and its
coordination with music, and--most marvelous--the spooky and
passionate stories embedded within their 'plotless'
maneuvers."--Mindy Aloff, editor of Leaps in the Dark Nancy
Goldner, author of Balanchine Variations, was a dance critic for
the Christian Science Monitor, the Nation, the Philadelphia
Inquirer, and Dance News for twenty five years. BALANCHINE is a
registered trademark of The George Balanchine Trust.
General
Imprint: |
University Press of Florida
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2011 |
First published: |
October 2011 |
Authors: |
Nancy Goldner
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
156 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8130-3753-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Dance >
Ballet
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LSN: |
0-8130-3753-0 |
Barcode: |
9780813037530 |
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