Balanchine: A Biography: With a New Epilogue

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Written with wit, insight, and candor, Balanchine is a book on the way to delight lovers of biography in addition to those with a special interest in dance. For this edition the writer has added a thoughtful yet dramatic account of the figuring out of Balanchine‘s legacy, from the making of his controversial will to the current day. The writer explores the intriguing legal, financial, and institutional subplots that unfolded after the death of the greatest choreographer of the century, however the central plot of his epilogue is the aesthetic issue: Within the absence in their writer, can the ballets retain their wondrous vitality? Taper illuminates the fascinating transmission of Balanchine’s masterworks from one generation to some other, an unprecented legacy Within the history of ballet, that most evanescent of the arts.
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