Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo
    Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo
    Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo
    Ebook236 pages2 hours

    Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo

    By Victoria Tennant

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    In the 1930s and ’40s, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo toured the United States and the world, introducing many to ballet as an art form, while spreading the enduring image of the ballerina as an embodiment of feminine grace and sophistication. This sumptuous, illustrated history tells the story of the rise of modern ballet and its popularity through the life story of one of ballet’s most glamorous stars, Irina Baronova (1919–2008), prima ballerina for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and later for Ballet Theatre in New York.

    Drawing on letters, correspondence, oral histories, and interviews, Baronova’s daughter, the actress Victoria Tennant, warmly recounts Baronova’s dramatic life, from her earliest aspirations to her grueling time on tour to her later years in Australia as a pioneer of the art. She begins with the Baronov family’s flight from Russia during the Revolution, which led them to Romania and later Paris, where at the age of thirteen, Baronova became a star, chosen by the legendary George Balanchine to join the Ballets Russes, where she danced the lead in Swan Lake.  Tennant provides an intimate account of Baronova’s life as a dancer and rare behind-the-scenes stories of life on the road with the stars of the company. Spectacular photographs, a mix of archival images and family snapshots, offer many rare views of rehearsals, costumes, set designs, and the dancers themselves both at their most dazzling and in their most everyday.

    The story of Irina Baronova is also the story of the rise of ballet in America thanks to the Ballets Russes, who brought the magisterial beauty and star power of dance to big cities and small towns alike.  Irina Baronova and the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo offers a unique perspective on this history, sure to be treasured by dance patrons and aspiring stars.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateOct 15, 2014
    ISBN9780226186306
    Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo

    Related to Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo

    Related ebooks

    Photography For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Isadora’s Children

      Sep 15, 2020

      Isadora’s Children
      1 min read

    • Article

      Dancing At Any Age

      Jul 24, 2019

      Dancing At Any Age
      6 min read

    • Article

      Le Nozze Di Figaro

      Mar 21, 2022

      Le Nozze Di Figaro
      3 min read

    • Article

      Grazyna Bacewicz

      Feb 20, 2020

      Grazyna Bacewicz
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Pain Of Ukraine

      May 2, 2022

      The Pain Of Ukraine
      3 min read

    • Article

      Taking the Stage

      Nov 1, 2020

      Taking the Stage
      4 min read

    • Article

      Antonín Dvorák

      Aug 5, 2021

      Antonín Dvorák
      6 min read

    • Article

      Commentary: Why Satie? Why Now? How One Composer Embodies Our Time Of Loneliness And Angst

      Jun 19, 2020

      Safe at home has not necessarily meant sane at home. One antidote is a mega-dose of Erik Satie. The French composer's most beguiling and languidly becalming piano pieces, particularly the inescapable "Gymnopedies," began showing up in April and May o

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Unlikely Viking

      Sep 18, 2020

      The Unlikely Viking
      8 min read

    • Article

      Carrie-Ann Matheson

      Mar 13, 2020

      Carrie-Ann Matheson
      9 min read

    • Article

      Cosplaying Jane Austen

      Jul 22, 2017

      Cosplaying Jane Austen
      7 min read

    • Article

      Remembering John Renbourn

      Aug 28, 2019

      After touring in the south west of England in the early 1960s, John Renbourn first came to prominence when he formed a duo with Bert Jansch, riding the wave of the great English folk revival, but blazing a trail for what became known as ‘folk baroque

      7 min read

    • Article

      Ans Westra (1936-2023)

      May 12, 2023

      Ans Westra (1936-2023)
      5 min read

    • Article

      Music That Changed Me

      Jan 20, 2022

      Music That Changed Me
      3 min read

    • Article

      Staff Picks: Detritus, Dreamin’, Dinos

      Jul 14, 2017

      From Paleoart.   First published in 1966, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, by Justin Kaplan, is still the standard biography of our most enduringly funny writer—or, at least, the earliest writer who makes me actually laugh. I avoided it till now because I

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Soundtrack Of Our Lives

      Jun 9, 2023

      Our ancestors lived to the background noise of horses’ hooves and waggon wheels, hammers and scythes, windmills and water mills. Then came steam trains, factory whistles, klaxons, deafening cloth mills, steel works. More melodic were the coaching pos

      9 min read

    • Article

      A Final Walk With Olds

      Oct 2, 2023

      A Final Walk With Olds
      6 min read

    • Article

      Siamelaht

      Dec 4, 2019

      Siamelaht
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo - Victoria Tennant

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1