Alla Osipenko: Beauty and Resistance in Soviet Ballet by Joel Lobenthal
By Joel Lobenthal
She was once the 1st of her new release of Kirov stars to enchant the West whilst she danced in Paris in 1956. yet dancing for the institution had its downsides, and Osipenko's sharp tongue and marked independence, in addition to her almost-reckless flouting of Soviet ideas for private and political behavior, quickly chanced on her all yet quarantined in Russia. An the world over acclaimed ballerina on the peak of her occupation, she stumbled on that she could now need to succeed within the face of each try out by means of the Soviet nation and the Kirov management to humble her.
In Alla Osipenko, acclaimed dance author Joel Lobenthal tells Osipenko's tale for the 1st time in English, drawing on forty interviews with the prima ballerina, and tracing her lifestyles from Classical darling to avant-garde insurgent. in the course of the publication, Osipenko talks frankly and freely in a fashion that few Russians of her new release have allowed themselves to. Her voice rises above the incidents as unhesitating and sleek as her mythical adagios. Candid, irreverent, and, mainly, self sustaining -- Osipenko and her tale open a window right into a interesting and little-discussed world.
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