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Harss Marina - The Boy From Kyiv Alexei Ratmansky's Life In Ballet - Paperback
Harss Marina - The Boy From Kyiv Alexei Ratmansky's Life In Ballet - Paperback
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Description: Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and The New Yorker The Boy from Kyiv is the life story of Alexei Ratmansky the most celebrated ballet choreographer of our time. A revelatory book about how Ratmansky evolved into the internationally sought - after choreographer of the moment A must - read. Martha Anne Toll NPR Alexei Ratmansky is transforming ballet for the twenty - first century. An artist of daring imagination the choreographer has created breathtakingly original works for the world's most revered companies. He has fashioned a singular approach to balletic storytelling that bridges the space between narrative and abstraction and heightens ambiguity and surprise on the stage. He has boldly restored great centuries - old ballets to their former glory combining archival research with his own choreographic genius to retrieve detail and color once lost to the ages. And above all he is renowned for fusing the Western and Eastern ballet traditions and for drawing on the visual arts literature music film and beyond with inspired vim to forge a style that is vibrant eclectic and utterly new: one that promises to leave an indelible mark on this venerable art form. But before Ratmansky was the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet the resident choreographer at American Ballet Theatre the artist in residence at New York City Ballet and generally as The New Yorker has it the most sought - after man in ballet he was just a boy from Kyiv sneaking into the ballet at night concocting his own juvenile adaptations of novels and stories and dreaming up new possibilities for bodies in motion. In The Boy from Kyiv the first biography of this groundbreaking artist the celebrated dance writer Marina Harss takes us behind the curtain to reveal Ratmansky's fascinating life from his Soviet boyhood through his globe - spanning career. Over a decade in the making this biography arrives at a pivotal moment in Ratmansky's journey one that has seen him painfully and publicly break ties with Russia the country in which he made his name in solidarity with his native Ukraine and take on a new challenge at the storied New York City Ballet. Told with the lyricism drama and verve that befit its subject The Boy from Kyiv is a riveting account of this major artist's ascent to the peaks of his field a mesmerizing study of creativity in action and a triumphant testament to ballet's enduring vitality.
Title: The Boy From Kyiv Alexei Ratmansky's Life In Ballet
Author(s): Harss Marina
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250338266
Pages: 496 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2024
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment
Description: Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and The New Yorker The Boy from Kyiv is the life story of Alexei Ratmansky the most celebrated ballet choreographer of our time. A revelatory book about how Ratmansky evolved into the internationally sought - after choreographer of the moment A must - read. Martha Anne Toll NPR Alexei Ratmansky is transforming ballet for the twenty - first century. An artist of daring imagination the choreographer has created breathtakingly original works for the world's most revered companies. He has fashioned a singular approach to balletic storytelling that bridges the space between narrative and abstraction and heightens ambiguity and surprise on the stage. He has boldly restored great centuries - old ballets to their former glory combining archival research with his own choreographic genius to retrieve detail and color once lost to the ages. And above all he is renowned for fusing the Western and Eastern ballet traditions and for drawing on the visual arts literature music film and beyond with inspired vim to forge a style that is vibrant eclectic and utterly new: one that promises to leave an indelible mark on this venerable art form. But before Ratmansky was the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet the resident choreographer at American Ballet Theatre the artist in residence at New York City Ballet and generally as The New Yorker has it the most sought - after man in ballet he was just a boy from Kyiv sneaking into the ballet at night concocting his own juvenile adaptations of novels and stories and dreaming up new possibilities for bodies in motion. In The Boy from Kyiv the first biography of this groundbreaking artist the celebrated dance writer Marina Harss takes us behind the curtain to reveal Ratmansky's fascinating life from his Soviet boyhood through his globe - spanning career. Over a decade in the making this biography arrives at a pivotal moment in Ratmansky's journey one that has seen him painfully and publicly break ties with Russia the country in which he made his name in solidarity with his native Ukraine and take on a new challenge at the storied New York City Ballet. Told with the lyricism drama and verve that befit its subject The Boy from Kyiv is a riveting account of this major artist's ascent to the peaks of his field a mesmerizing study of creativity in action and a triumphant testament to ballet's enduring vitality.
Title: The Boy From Kyiv Alexei Ratmansky's Life In Ballet
Author(s): Harss Marina
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250338266
Pages: 496 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2024
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment
