Article: An impassioned hymn to the art of dance BOOKS & IDEAS

Toni Bentley The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
01-24-2009
An impassioned hymn to the art of dance BOOKS & IDEAS
Byline: Toni Bentley The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 1
Section: FEATURES

Ballet's Magic Kingdom

Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925
By Akim Volynsky

Edited and translated by Stanley J. Rabinowitz

288 pages. Yale University Press. $35.

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This is a fantastic book. We find out not only about the vicissitudes of Pavlova's alimentary canal but also about the skeletal structure of her knees, the size of her arch, the height of her jumps, her "sensuous" lower lip and the slope of her "ravishing" shoulders. All this and a clear ...

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