Mr B
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Mr B
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Author : Jennifer Homans
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2022-11-01
Mr B written by Jennifer Homans and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • “A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life.”—MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography and the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Baillie Gifford Prize Based on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man The New York Times called “the Shakespeare of dancing”—from the bestselling author of Apollo’s Angels New York Times Editors’ Choice • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, Oprah Daily Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century—The New York Times called him “the Shakespeare of dancing.” His radical approach to choreography—and life—reinvented the art of ballet and made him a legend. Written with enormous style and artistry, and based on more than one hundred interviews and research in archives across Russia, Europe, and the Americas, Mr. B carries us through Balanchine’s tumultuous and high-pitched life story and into the making of his extraordinary dances. Balanchine’s life intersected with some of the biggest historical events of his century. Born in Russia under the last czar, Balanchine experienced the upheavals of World War I, the Russian Revolution, exile, World War II, and the Cold War. A co-founder of the New York City Ballet, he pressed ballet in America to the forefront of modernism and made it a popular art. None of this was easy, and we see his loneliness and failures, his five marriages—all to dancers—and many loves. We follow his bouts of ill health and spiritual crises, and learn of his profound musical skills and sensibility and his immense determination to make some of the most glorious, strange, and beautiful dances ever to grace the modern stage. With full access to Balanchine’s papers and many of his dancers, Jennifer Homans, the dance critic for The New Yorker and a former dancer herself, has spent more than a decade researching Balanchine’s life and times to write a vast history of the twentieth century through the lens of one of its greatest artists: the definitive biography of the man his dancers called Mr. B.
Wake Up Mr B
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Author : Penny Dale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Wake Up Mr B written by Penny Dale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
Mr B Again
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Author : Ken Saro-Wiwa
language : en
Publisher: Saros International Publishers
Release Date : 1989
Mr B Again written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and has been published by Saros International Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Fiction categories.
In the sequel to Mr B, the great conman of Lagos and the hero of Basi and Company tricks Mr Penigo, a gullible farmer, into believing he can become a millionaire overnight. When he finally confronts Mr B, it is to learn that the only way to success is through hard work and clear thinking.
Mr B
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Author : Ken Saro-Wiwa
language : en
Publisher: Saros International Publishers
Release Date : 1987
Mr B written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and has been published by Saros International Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Fiction categories.
This Novel for children relates the adventure of Mr B - the hero whose exploits have been made into the popular Nigerian television series "Basi and Company."
Mr B
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Author : Jennifer Homans
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2022-11-03
Mr B written by Jennifer Homans and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2023 From the author of Apollo's Angels, the first major biography of the figure who modernised dance: an intimate portrait of the man behind the mythology, set against the vibrant backdrop of the century that shaped him Balanchine's radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly evocative ballets made him a lasting legend. Today, nearly thirty years after his death, the man is still so revered that the mysteries of his biography are often overlooked. Who was George Balanchine? Born in Russia under the last Czar, Balanchine experienced the upheavals of World War One, the Russian Revolution, exile, World War Two and the cultural Cold War; he was part of the Russian modernist moment, a key player in Paris in the 1920s, and in New York he revolutionized ballet, pressing it to the forefront of modernism and making it serious and popular art. His influences were myriad. He considered himself Georgian, yet he did not step foot in his ancestral homeland until he was in his fifties. He was deeply influenced by the cold grandeur and sensuous beauty of the Orthodox Church, but equally absorbed by the new rhythms and dance steps coming out of Harlem in the 1930s. He collaborated broadly, with figures like Diaghilev and Stravinsky. A man of muses, Balanchine was married five times, always to young dancers, and consumed by many other loves in between. The difficulties of his life - personal losses, bouts of ill health, debilitating loneliness and dark moods of despair - resonate in his dances, which speak so poignantly of love and loss, and yet the full implications for his art remain unexplored. Now for the first time we look beyond the myth of 'Mr B' - the mask which Balanchine himself helped to create - to see 'Mr B' the man.
Mr B Goes To Lagos
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Author : Ken Saro-Wiwa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Mr B Goes To Lagos written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Fiction categories.
Story about Mr. B adapted from the popular Nigerian television comedy series "Basi and company" by the same author
Mr B Is Dead
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Author : Ken Saro-Wiwa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Mr B Is Dead written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Fiction categories.
The Moonbow Of Mr B Bones
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Author : J. Patrick Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 1992
The Moonbow Of Mr B Bones written by J. Patrick Lewis and has been published by Knopf Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A new boy in a small mountain village tries to discredit the old peddler who sells magic jars of sundrops, moonbows, and the like; but though he drives the old man away, something remarkable does happen in the sky.
Apollo S Angels
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Author : Jennifer Homans
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2013-01-03
Apollo S Angels written by Jennifer Homans and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-03 with Performing Arts categories.
Apollo's Angels is a major new history of classical ballet. It begins in the courts of Europe, where ballet was an aspect of aristocratic etiquette and a political event as much as it was an art. The story takes the reader from the sixteenth century through to our own time, from Italy and France to Britain, Denmark, Russia and contemporary America. The reader learns how ballet reflected political and cultural upheavals, how dance and dancers were influenced by the Renaissance and French Classicism, by Revolution and Romanticism, by Expressionism and Bolshevism, Modernism and the Cold War. Homans shows how and why 'the steps' were never just the steps: they were a set of beliefs and a way of life. She takes the reader into the lives of dancers and traces the formal evolution of technique, choreography and performance. Her book ends by looking at the contemporary crisis in ballet now that 'the masters are dead and gone' and offers a passionate plea for the centrality of classical dance in our civilization. Apollo's Angels is a book with broad popular appeal: beautifully written and illustrated, it is essential reading for anyone interested in history, culture and art.
I Don T Want To Be Quiet
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Author : Laura Ellen Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-03-05
I Don T Want To Be Quiet written by Laura Ellen Anderson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-05 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
From the excellent Laura Ellen Anderson, this is a very funny picture book about taking notice of the quieter things in life. Stairs are for STOMPING, spoons are for DRUMMING, and when my mum's working, I help her by HUMMING. Making noise is a LOT of fun ... but what happens when you take the time to really listen to your world around you? Perfect for little people who love banging and popping, and whizzing and fizzing. Laura Ellen Anderson is the author/illustrator of the internationally successful I Don't Want Curly Hair and the bestselling Amelia Fang series.