Bravura!

Lucia Chase and the American Ballet Theatre
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8130-6808-4
Verlag: University Press of Florida

Buch, Englisch, 374 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

To many people, Lucia Chase (1897-1986) was the American Ballet Theatre, and her reign as the queen of American ballet lasted for more than four decades.It was Chase who brought Nureyev, Bujones, Kirkland, and eventually Baryshnikov to ABT. Under her leadership, the company worked with such legends as Agnes de Mille, Anthony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, and Twyla Tharp. Her drive, ambition, tenacity, and money kept the doors open even during the lean years.A dancer when the company made its debut in 1940, she was artistic director for an unprecedented thirty-five years, from 1945 to 1980. Over the course of her career, she received numerous honors and awards, including the U.S. Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

Combining unique personal insights as Chase's son along with experience garnered from his own professional dance and administrative career, Alex Ewing offers the definitive story of one of the true pioneers in the world of American ballet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ewing, Alex C

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz

Über Autor(innen)

Alex C. Ewing is chancellor emeritus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and former general director of the Joffrey Ballet.