George Balanchine - Robert Gottlieb

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The foremost contemporary choreographer in the history of ballet, George Balanchine extended the art form into radical new paths that came to seem inevitable under his direction. He transformed movement and dance in classical and modern ballet, on the Broadway stage, and in the cinema.George Balanchine chronicles the life and achievements of this visionary artist from his early, almost accidental career in Russia, where his lifelong collaboration with Igor Stravinsky was forged, to his extraordinary accomplishments in America. The editor and writer Robert Gottlieb, one of the most knowledgeable dance critics in America, offers a superb and loving portrait of a genius who, though married many times to many ballerinas, remained truest to his greatest love, Terpischore, the Greek Muse of dance.

The foremost choreographer in the history of contemporary ballet, George Balanchine expanded the art form in radical new directions. Ballet, modern dance, musical theater and film are all in debt to this dynamic artist. Throughout his long career he worked with the most prominent figures in 20th century dance, from Serge Diaghelev to Jerome Robbins, even choreographing a ballet for elephants (with music by Stravinsky).

Author and dance critic Robert Gottlieb explores Balanchine's long and storied career in this entry in the Eminent Lives series, in which in which culturally and historically prominent figures are paired with distinguished authors. Gottlieb chronicles Balanchine's remarkable life, from his early career in Russia to his later life in the United States, where he founded the New York City Ballet. George Balanchine is an insightful tribute to the man who almost singlehandedly transformed ballet into a modern art form.

Robert Gottlieb has been editor in chief at Simon and Schuster, Alfred Knopf and the New Yorker. He has written two successful anthologies for Pantheon: Reading Jazz and (with Robert Kimball) Reading Lyrics, and has edited hundreds of books from Catch-22 to the memoirs of Katharine Graham and Bill Clinton, as well as the John Cheever Journals and the Everyman Kipling.

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The former editor in chief of Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and The New Yorker, Robert Gottlieb was on the board of directors of the New York City Ballet for many years. He writes literary criticism for the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, and The New Yorker, and is the dance critic for the New York Observer.