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The first translation of the writings of Akim Volynsky, the
greatest ballet authority of early twentieth-century Russia Akim
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. Stanley 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.
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