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-Titulo Original : Mr. B George Balanchines 20th Century
-Fabricante :
Random House
-Descripcion Original:
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE * “A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life.”-MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Based on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man The New York Times called “the Shakespeare of dancing”-from the bestselling author of Apollo’s Angels ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, NPR Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century-The New York Times called him “the Shakespeare of dancing.” His radical approach to choreography-and life-reinvented the art of ballet and made him a legend. Written with enormous style and artistry, and based on more than one hundred interviews and research in archives across Russia, Europe, and the Americas, Mr. B carries us through Balanchine’s tumultuous and high-pitched life story and into the making of his extraordinary dances. Balanchine’s life intersected with some of the biggest historical events of his century. Born in Russia under the last czar, Balanchine experienced the upheavals of World War I, the Russian Revolution, exile, World War II, and the Cold War. A co-founder of the New York City Ballet, he pressed ballet in America to the forefront of modernism and made it a popular art. None of this was easy, and we see his loneliness and failures, his five marriages-all to dancers-and many loves. We follow his bouts of ill health and spiritual crises, and learn of his profound musical skills and sensibility and his immense determination to make some of the most glorious, strange, and beautiful dances ever to grace the modern stage. With full access to Balanchine’s papers and many of his dancers, Jennifer Homans, the dance critic for The New Yorker and a former dancer herself, has spent more than a decade researching Balanchine’s life and times to write a vast history of the twentieth century through the lens of one of its greatest artists: the definitive biography of the man his dancers called Mr. B. Review “It was one of the highlights of my life to know George Balanchine personally and professionally. I truly loved this man, but he certainly wasn’t perfect. Jennifer Homanss meticulously researched Mr. B gives us an artist who is as complicated, and even flawed, as he was groundbreaking and brilliant. It is a fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life.”-Mikhail Baryshnikov “A magisterial biography…sensitive, stately, and often thrilling…Mr. B is a serious act of cultural retrieval.”-New York Times “An intricate, meticulously researched biography of the revered and controversial dance icon . . . engrossing, vivid . . . the definitive account.”-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Jennifer Homans has not only resurrected George Balanchine, she has restored the Russia that disappeared out from behind him. More remarkably, she pins dance to the page with the precision, intensity, and range her subject prized. The result is lyrical and commanding, among the most electrifying pas de deux you’re likely to find on the biography shelf.”-Stacy Schiff “This isn’t dutiful biography, this is literature as vibrant and alive as Balanchine’s art.”-Gary Shteyngart “An extraordinary biography by one of America’s most prominent dance writers . . . the level of detail and depth of research are mind boggling, but most compelling are Homans’s insights into Balanchine’s emotional and spiritual life . . . Homans writes with the care and lyricism of a poet and every page is a joy.”-Lit Hub “A must-read biography . . . an indispensable reference book for anyone who cares about ballet, viewers and performers alike.”-Fjord Review “A masterful rendition of Europe’s twentieth-century cultural history. It’s a magnificent a
-Fabricante :
Random House
-Descripcion Original:
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE * “A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life.”-MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Based on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man The New York Times called “the Shakespeare of dancing”-from the bestselling author of Apollo’s Angels ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, NPR Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century-The New York Times called him “the Shakespeare of dancing.” His radical approach to choreography-and life-reinvented the art of ballet and made him a legend. Written with enormous style and artistry, and based on more than one hundred interviews and research in archives across Russia, Europe, and the Americas, Mr. B carries us through Balanchine’s tumultuous and high-pitched life story and into the making of his extraordinary dances. Balanchine’s life intersected with some of the biggest historical events of his century. Born in Russia under the last czar, Balanchine experienced the upheavals of World War I, the Russian Revolution, exile, World War II, and the Cold War. A co-founder of the New York City Ballet, he pressed ballet in America to the forefront of modernism and made it a popular art. None of this was easy, and we see his loneliness and failures, his five marriages-all to dancers-and many loves. We follow his bouts of ill health and spiritual crises, and learn of his profound musical skills and sensibility and his immense determination to make some of the most glorious, strange, and beautiful dances ever to grace the modern stage. With full access to Balanchine’s papers and many of his dancers, Jennifer Homans, the dance critic for The New Yorker and a former dancer herself, has spent more than a decade researching Balanchine’s life and times to write a vast history of the twentieth century through the lens of one of its greatest artists: the definitive biography of the man his dancers called Mr. B. Review “It was one of the highlights of my life to know George Balanchine personally and professionally. I truly loved this man, but he certainly wasn’t perfect. Jennifer Homanss meticulously researched Mr. B gives us an artist who is as complicated, and even flawed, as he was groundbreaking and brilliant. It is a fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life.”-Mikhail Baryshnikov “A magisterial biography…sensitive, stately, and often thrilling…Mr. B is a serious act of cultural retrieval.”-New York Times “An intricate, meticulously researched biography of the revered and controversial dance icon . . . engrossing, vivid . . . the definitive account.”-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Jennifer Homans has not only resurrected George Balanchine, she has restored the Russia that disappeared out from behind him. More remarkably, she pins dance to the page with the precision, intensity, and range her subject prized. The result is lyrical and commanding, among the most electrifying pas de deux you’re likely to find on the biography shelf.”-Stacy Schiff “This isn’t dutiful biography, this is literature as vibrant and alive as Balanchine’s art.”-Gary Shteyngart “An extraordinary biography by one of America’s most prominent dance writers . . . the level of detail and depth of research are mind boggling, but most compelling are Homans’s insights into Balanchine’s emotional and spiritual life . . . Homans writes with the care and lyricism of a poet and every page is a joy.”-Lit Hub “A must-read biography . . . an indispensable reference book for anyone who cares about ballet, viewers and performers alike.”-Fjord Review “A masterful rendition of Europe’s twentieth-century cultural history. It’s a magnificent a
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