Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia
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The powerfully moving story of the Russian Jewish choreographer who used dance to challenge despotism Everyone has heard of George Balanchine, but few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary and arguably his equal, 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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300207638
ISBN13:9780300207637
Release Date:January 2015
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:536 Pages
Weight:2.00 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.4" x 9.6"
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