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- Kathleen Norias,
Hands Full of Living,
1931
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ZIN Product Number: 10592216
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 Format: Hardcover, 236 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231115466
Release Date: Jan 3, 1995
| |  | | | In Brief
Lavishly illustrated with a wide range of extraordinary photographs, this collection of essays takes a new and provocative look at the history of the New York City Ballet, placing it within the context of the city's changing intellectual and cultural landscape and underscoring its role in the development of a distinctly American aesthetic.
| | | | From The Publisher
Dance for a City - produced in conjunction with a major exhibition at the New-York Historical Society - examines the rich history, cultural significance, and continuing accomplishments of America's premier ballet company. Illustrated with a wide range of extraordinary photographs, this collection of essays - edited by dance scholar and exhibition curator Lynn Garafola and historian Eric Foner - takes a new and provocative look at the history of the New York City Ballet, placing it within the context of the city's changing intellectual and cultural life and underscoring its role in the development of a distinctly American aesthetic.
| | | | Annotation
Winner, Independent Publishers Book Award, Performing Arts Category;
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| | | |  | | | | Acknowledgments | | | Dance for a City Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet | 1 | | The New York City Ballet and the Worlds of New York Intellect | 53 | | Sibling Rivalry The New York City Ballet and Modern Dance | 73 | | The Making of Agon | 99 | | Watching Music | 119 | | Substitute and Consolation The Ballet Photographs of George Platt Lynes | 129 | | Listening to Balanchine | 153 | | A Portfolio of Photographs of Jerome Robbins | 169 | | Works Choreographed and Staged by Jerome Robbins | 189 | | Notes | 207 | | Index | 223 |
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