Behind the scenes at the Ballets Russes : stories from a golden age /
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| Author / Creator: | Meilakh, Mikhail author. |
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| Imprint: | London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018. |
| Description: | xxiv, 336 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11445317 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Author's Preface to the English Edition: The West in Russia and Russia in the West - a Permeable Membrane
- Lineage of the Ballets Russes Companies
- Part I. The Ballets Russes
- An Introduction
- In the Shadow of Diaghilev
- Rachel Cameron on Tamara Karsavina
- Her whole being shone with a marvellous inner beauty...
- Tamara Geva
- Balanchine spotted me at a class and asked me to work with him
- Alexandra (Choura) Danilova
- I told Diaghilev, 'If I'm good enough for the Mariinsky Theatre, I should be good enough for you'
- Remembering Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes: The 'Baby Ballerinas'
- Irina Baronova
- That nickname stuck to us fast!
- Tamara Toumanova
- Anna Pavlova said to me, 'Oh you are a darling, clever girl!'
- Tatiana Riabouchinska
- We rehearsed on the steamship...
- Remembering Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes: Dancers
- Marika Besobrasova
- We left Yalta on the last English steamer
- Tatiana Leskova
- One way or another, everything goes back to Diaghilev
- George Zoritch
- I was able to step into a role at the last minute...
- Tamara Tchinarova (Finch)
- I was roped into opera and ballet translations...
- Anna Volkova
- To encourage the Queen of England, the whole company sang, 'Bottoms up, bottoms up!'
- Miguel Terekhov
- It's every man for himself in ballet
- Marjorie Tallchief
- Every country produces its own type of artist
- Anatoly Joukowsky
- We lived all of our life in dance
- Tatiana Stepanova and her mother
- Alexandra Stepanova
- Oh, you just want to pinch more money from me!
- Tatiana Stepanova
- Three Russians make a fair, five make a bazaar
- The Ballets Russes in Australia
- Rachel Cameron
- We Australians...
- Tamara Tchinarova (Finch)
- Here I am, and still a dancer!
- The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in America
- Frederic Franklin
- An argument started between Nijinska and Dolin - 'pachimu? [why?]'
- Nini Theilade
- I want a childish-looking Venus!
- Hélène Traïline
- Prince, would you bring me a glass of water?
- Nina Novak
- For me, to work on stage is the same as living and breathing
- Part II. The Marquis de Cuevas and Others
- Maria Kirillova (de Fredericks)
- Madame de Fredericks always retains her charm and courage
- Ethéry Pagava
- I expect champagne from, you, and you give me Coca-Cola
- Milorad Miskovitch
- A new style of classical dance alongside a fiery Serbian temperament
- Hélène Sadowska
- Très élégant at Egorova's; très authentique at Preobrajenska's
- Vladimir Oukhtomsky
- I fell in love with dance even before I started dancing
- Vladimir Skouratoff
- In France, male dance has always been in the shadows
- Boris Traïline
- Boy, come over here, explain it to these blockheads!
- Nicholas Polajenko
- Don't worry, dearie, let's just dance the waltz
- Jean Babilée
- There was something so amazingly lyrical about the Russian ballet training!
- Maina Gielgud
- Rudi said, 'You come 5 o'clock and bring boy'
- Afterword
- John Neumeier, Nijinsky and the Diaghilev Tradition
- John Neumeier
- Like a tree, the art of ballet has many roots...
- Dramatis Personae
- Illustrations
- Index of Names
- Index of Ballets
