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Excerpt from Dance Index, Vol. 3: Anna Pavlova, March, 1944Pavlova, Cyril W. Beaumont, 75 Charing Cross Road, Lohdon, ' 1932 Victor Dah dré: Anna Pavlova in Art and Life, Cassell Co. Ltd. (1932 New York Public Library Iconography - photographs, and as item 10, an advertisement-folder describing the three social dances devised by Pavlova in 1914, - the Pavlowana, the Gavotte Renaissance, and the Czarina Waltz announcing these dances with their ...

Excerpt from Dance Index, 1944, Vol. 3From Kiev Tchelitchew went, indirectly, to Constantinople where, two years later, he designed six ballets for the company of Vic tor Zimine, a pupil of the dancer Mikhail Mordkin. As had been the case with The Geisha, the designs were simple for the bal lets which the troupe of half a dozen dancers presented were short and were changed each week. But in them Tchelitchew realised some of the theatrical'poss...

Excerpt from Dance Index, Vol. 3: July, August, 1944To conjure, even for a moment, the wist fulness which is the past is like trying to gather in one's arms' the hyacinthine color of the distance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally...

Excerpt from Dance Index, Vol. 2: March, 1943The manner in which Nijinsky's face changes from role to role is immediately striking. It is en hanced by makeup, but not created by it. In fact a friend pointed out that the only role In which one recognizes Nijinsky's civilian face is that of Petrouchka where he is most heavily made up. There is no mystery about such transformability. People don't usually realize how much any face changes in the c...

Excerpt from Dance Index, Vol. 2: March, 1943The manner in which Nijinsky's face changes from role to role is immediately striking. It is en hanced by makeup, but not created by it. In fact a friend pointed out that the only role In which one recognizes Nijinsky's civilian face is that of Petrouchka where he is most heavily made up. There is no mystery about such transformability. People don't usually realize how much any face changes in the c...

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Excerpt from Dance Index, Vol. 3: Three or Four Graces, Sept., Oct., Nov., 1944It is proverbial that a brief question may take volumes to answer in full - as, Who was Louis XVII? A summary reply can always be given as, the Lost Dauphin - but that only poses more questions than it answers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction o...

Excerpt from Dance Index, Vol. 3: Three or Four Graces, Sept., Oct., Nov., 1944It is proverbial that a brief question may take volumes to answer in full - as, Who was Louis XVII? A summary reply can always be given as, the Lost Dauphin - but that only poses more questions than it answers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction o...

Excerpt from Dance Index, Vol. 2: August, 1943Is it so certain then that this life Consists only of fourfold nonsense Is it not far more true that this life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the o...

Excerpt from Dance Index, Vol. 2: August, 1943Is it so certain then that this life Consists only of fourfold nonsense Is it not far more true that this life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the o...

Excerpt from Dance Index, Vol. 3: Anna Pavlova, March, 1944Pavlova, Cyril W. Beaumont, 75 Charing Cross Road, Lohdon, ' 1932 Victor Dah dr¿Anna Pavlova in Art and Life, Cassell Co. Ltd. (1932 New York Public Library Iconography - photographs, and as item 10, an advertisement-folder describing the three social dances devised by Pavlova in 1914, - the Pavlowana, the Gavotte Renaissance, and the Czarina Waltz announcing these dances with their mu...

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Excerpt from Dance Index, 1944, Vol. 3 From Kiev Tchelitchew went, indirectly, to Constantinople where, two years later, he designed six ballets for the company of Vic tor Zimine, a pupil of the dancer Mikhail Mordkin. As had been the case with The Geisha, the designs were simple for the bal lets which the troupe of half a dozen dancers presented were short and were changed each week. But in them Tchelitchew realised some of the theatrical'po...

Zwischen Windham und Williams ist es eine Art Liebe auf den ersten Blick, die beiden leben und arbeiten zusammen und produzieren 1945 ein gemeinsames Stück am Broadway. Mit Capote wird 1948 eine Italienreise zum Schlüsselmoment für die Freundschaft, die Capote sein Leben lang und Windham weit über den Tod des Freundes im Jahre 1984 hinaus begleiten wird. Aber der schnelle Ruhm katapultiert Capote und Williams in Umlaufbahnen, in die ihnen zu f...

Neglected for over forty years, this moving novel has been republished in a more tolerant climate. "Two People" is about a love affair in Rome between a middle-aged American and a much younger Italian, but the word "people" in the title is both singular and plural, dealing with two cultures as well as with two individuals. First published in 1965, when the word "gay" in its sexual implications was little used or even recognized by heterosexual...

Emblems of Conduct is Donald Windham's moving memoir of his Depression-era youth in Atlanta, Georgia. Praised as "a masterpiece" by Georges Simenon, Windham's tale is not only a portrait of a bygone era but also a moving statement about the physical and spiritual need of youth to take risks.