And Then Came Dance: The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom

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Stanley J. Rabinowitz (Professor Emeritus of Russian, Professor Emeritus of Russian, Amherst College)

And Then Came Dance

The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom

Stanley J. Rabinowitz (Professor Emeritus of Russian, Professor Emeritus of Russian, Amherst College)

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Oxford University Press Inc
23 August 2019

Ballet

Presenting for the first time Akim Volynsky's (1861-1926) pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida Rubinstein, and Lou Andreas-Salome, And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the origins of Volynsky's life-altering journey to become Russia's foremost ballet critic. A man for whom the realm of art was largely female in form and whose all-encompassing image of woman constituted the crux of his aesthetic contemplation that crossed over into the personal and libidinal, Volynsky looks ahead to another Petersburg-bred high priest of classical dance, George Balanchine. With an undeniable proclivity toward ballet's female component, Volynsky's dance writings, illuminated by examples of his earlier gendered criticism, invite speculation on how truly ground-breaking and forward-looking this critic is.

Edited by: Stanley J. Rabinowitz (Professor Emeritus of Russian Professor Emeritus of Russian Amherst College)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 155mm, Width: 231mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780190943370
ISBN 10: 0190943378
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 23 August 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stanley J. Rabinowitz is Professor Emeritus of Russian at Amherst College.

Reviews for And Then Came Dance: The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom

Akim Volynsky, an idealist's idealist, abandoned philosophy for literature, then literature for Russian classical ballet. He wrote obsessively and compellingly about the female dancer as martyr, oracle, and cipher of an art he hoped might change the world. Rabinowitz has produced a mesmerizing, provocative collection of his writings, beautifully translated. -- Simon Morrison, Princeton University Praise for Ballet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925 (2011): This is a fantastic book ... The book is a must for anyone claiming a love of ballet ... [Volynsky's text] is always hugely entertaining and surprising, you will never look at a toeshoe, a tiara or a tendu ... the same way again. -- Toni Bentley, The New York Times Book Review