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001 2014022306
003 DLC
005 20150906123007.0
008 140807s2015 ctu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014022306
020 $a9780300207637 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aGV1785.I17$bR67 2015
082 00 $a792.8/0947$223
084 $aPER003010$aBIO005000$aHIS012000$aHIS037070$2bisacsh
100 1 $aRoss, Janice.
245 10 $aLike a bomb going off :$bLeonid Yakobson and ballet as resistance in Soviet Russia /$cJanice Ross ; foreword by Lynn Garafola.
264 1 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2015]
300 $axiv, 522 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary, who remained in Lenin's Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singular body of revolutionary dances that spoke to the Soviet condition. His work was often considered so culturally explosive that it was described as "like a bomb going off." Based on untapped archival collections of photographs, films, and writings about Yakobson's work in Moscow and St. Petersburg for the Bolshoi and Kirov ballets, as well as interviews with former dancers, family, and audience members, this illuminating and beautifully written biography brings to life a hidden history of artistic resistance in the USSR through this brave artist, who struggled against officially sanctioned anti-Semitism while offering a vista of hope"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
600 10 $aI︠A︡kobson, Leonid.
650 0 $aChoreographers$zSoviet Union$xBiography.
650 0 $aDancers$zSoviet Union$xBiography.
650 0 $aBallet$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
650 0 $aDance$xPolitical aspects$zSoviet Union.
650 7 $aPERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.$2bisacsh