Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic; journalist; and art historian who became Saint Petersburgrsquo;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 Volynskyrsquo;s articlesmdash;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 Volynskyrsquo;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 Volynskyrsquo;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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