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Author:   Bernard Taper
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Edition:   Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780520206397

ISBN 10:   0520206398
Pages:   413
Publication Date:   08 November 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Foreword CHAPTER ONE: Choreographer in His Element CHAPTER TWO: Childhood in Russia CHAPTER THREE: Monkey-A Student CHAPTER FOUR: First Choreography CHAPTER FIVE: Ballet Master to Diaghilev CHAPTER SIX: Apollo and Prodigal Son CHAPTER SEVEN: Rootless Years CHAPTER EIGHT: But First a School CHAPTER NINE: An Ace Job on the Terp Angle CHAPTER TEN : Second Beginnings CHAPTER ELEVEN: God Creates, Woman Inspires, and Man Assembles The Making of Agon-A Photo Essay CHAPTER TWELVE: Come Back, Come Back, Come Back CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Essential Tradition CHAPTER FOURTEEN: What's the Matter with Now? CHAPTER FIFTEEN: At Seventy CHAPTER SIXTEEN: An Appetite for Renewal CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Last Year EPILOGUE: Choreographing the Future Appendix Photo Credits Index

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The most readable and reliable introduction to the sphinxlike Russian who inspired his own brand of balletomania from the Diaghilev era to the present day. --Marcia B. Siegel, Washington Post Book World

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Bernard Taper is Emeritus Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

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