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• Winner of Named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title.
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Well-written and deeply researched, Balanchine and Kirstein's American Enterprise challenges at almost every turn received wisdom about Balanchine's first decade in the United States and the nature of his relationship with Lincoln Kirstein. It is the first book focused on Kirstein's ballet activities to make full use of his diaries and letters, to comb the contemporary press, to view Balanchine's popular enterprises in tandem with his 'high art' ones, and to consider those enterprises, along with Kirstein's, within the broader context of ballet in the 1930s. -- Lynn Garafola, Professor Emerita of Dance, Barnard College This book dramatically widens our understanding of the birth of American-style ballet in the 1930s, by looking equally at the usual hero, Balanchine, and at his younger partner and fellow-dreamer, Lincoln Kirstein. Steichen's meticulous examination of the two men's often self-contradictory 'enterprise' offers the pleasures of great scholarship - freshness, transparency, intelligence - coupled with exhilarating prose. -- Elizabeth Kendall, author of Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer

This book dramatically widens our understanding of the birth of American-style ballet in the 1930s, by looking equally at the usual hero, Balanchine, and at his younger partner and fellow-dreamer, Lincoln Kirstein. Steichen's meticulous examination of the two men's often self-contradictory 'enterprise' offers the pleasures of great scholarship - freshness, transparency, intelligence - coupled with exhilarating prose. * Elizabeth Kendall, author of Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer * Well-written and deeply researched, Balanchine and Kirstein's American Enterprise challenges at almost every turn received wisdom about Balanchine's first decade in the United States and the nature of his relationship with Lincoln Kirstein. It is the first book focused on Kirstein's ballet activities to make full use of his diaries and letters, to comb the contemporary press, to view Balanchine's popular enterprises in tandem with his 'high art' ones, and to consider those enterprises, along with Kirstein's, within the broader context of ballet in the 1930s. * Lynn Garafola, Professor Emerita of Dance, Barnard College *

...the writing style is welcoming and the research is excellent. Summing up: Highly Recommended -- CHOICE Well-written and deeply researched, Balanchine and Kirstein's American Enterprise challenges at almost every turn received wisdom about Balanchine's first decade in the United States and the nature of his relationship with Lincoln Kirstein. It is the first book focused on Kirstein's ballet activities to make full use of his diaries and letters, to comb the contemporary press, to view Balanchine's popular enterprises in tandem with his 'high art' ones, and to consider those enterprises, along with Kirstein's, within the broader context of ballet in the 1930s. -- Lynn Garafola, Professor Emerita of Dance, Barnard College This book dramatically widens our understanding of the birth of American-style ballet in the 1930s, by looking equally at the usual hero, Balanchine, and at his younger partner and fellow-dreamer, Lincoln Kirstein. Steichen's meticulous examination of the two men's often self-contradictory 'enterprise' offers the pleasures of great scholarship - freshness, transparency, intelligence - coupled with exhilarating prose. -- Elizabeth Kendall, author of Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer

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James Steichen grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and attended the University of Virginia and University of Chicago before completing a PhD in musicology from Princeton University. Prior to his doctoral studies he worked for five years in the development office at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and he currently serves as Director of Individual Gifts at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

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