Like a Bomb Going Off - Ross Janice
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ENG Like A Bomb Going Off explores the rich and complex history of twentieth-century ballet and the even more complex history of the expressive arts in the Soviet Union through the lens of one of its most relentless renegades, Leonid Yakobson. A tightly focused and fascinating study of Leonid Yakobson's work, this biography presents its subject through the multiple ideologies of which he was both a product and a critic, offering a view of him as an artist, a citizen, a Jew, and a man of high-minded principle. Yakobson, a contradictory and fascinating artist, challenged censors, staging…mehr

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ENG Like A Bomb Going Off explores the rich and complex history of twentieth-century ballet and the even more complex history of the expressive arts in the Soviet Union through the lens of one of its most relentless renegades, Leonid Yakobson. A tightly focused and fascinating study of Leonid Yakobson's work, this biography presents its subject through the multiple ideologies of which he was both a product and a critic, offering a view of him as an artist, a citizen, a Jew, and a man of high-minded principle. Yakobson, a contradictory and fascinating artist, challenged censors, staging resistance from within the most public vocabulary of compliance - classical ballet. Ross’s book traces how Yakobson was an artist of contradictions, a modernist who made war on ballet and used unconventional movement while making dances for the leading Soviet companies and Russia’s greatest dancers. RUS В своей книге Дженис Росс исследует богатую и сложную историю советского балета сквозь призму творчества одного из главных возмутителей спокойствия, Леонида Якобсона. Якобсон бросал вызов цензорам, преодолевая жесткие эстетические рамки статичного и консервативного советского балета. Он был художником противоречий, м&a
Autorenporträt
Janice Ross, Professor Emerita, Theatre and Performance Studies Dept. Stanford University, taught Dance Studies for 34 years. She has degrees from UC Berkeley (BA honors) and Stanford (MA & PhD). She is the author of five books and numerous articles. Her awards include Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships; Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships; Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, Italy; NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts Fellowship; and research grants from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Stanford and is an Honorary Fellow of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Israel.