The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky's Life in Ballet

The Boy from Kyiv is the life story of Alexei Ratmansky, the most celebrated ballet choreographer of...
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Author: Marina Harss
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The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky's Life in Ballet by Harss, Marina

The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky's Life in Ballet

¥8,198

The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky's Life in Ballet

¥8,198
Author: Marina Harss
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The Boy from Kyiv is the life story of Alexei Ratmansky, the most celebrated ballet choreographer of our time.

Alexei Ratmansky is transforming ballet for the twenty-first century. An artist of daring imagination, the choreographer has created breathtakingly original works for the world's most revered companies. He has fashioned a singular approach to balletic storytelling that bridges the space between narrative and abstraction and heightens ambiguity and surprise on the stage. He has boldly restored great centuries-old ballets to their former glory, combining archival research with his own choreographic genius to retrieve detail and color once lost to the ages. And above all, he is renowned for fusing the Western and Eastern ballet traditions, and for drawing on the visual arts, literature, music, film, and beyond with inspired vim, to forge a style that is vibrant, eclectic, and utterly new: one that promises to leave an indelible mark on this venerable art form.

But before Ratmansky was the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, the resident choreographer at American Ballet Theatre, the artist in residence at New York City Ballet, and generally, as The New Yorker has it, "the most sought-after man in ballet," he was just a boy from Kyiv, sneaking into the ballet at night, concocting his own juvenile adaptations of novels and stories, and dreaming up new possibilities for bodies in motion.

In The Boy from Kyiv, the first biography of this groundbreaking artist, the celebrated dance writer Marina Harss takes us behind the curtain to reveal Ratmansky's fascinating life, from his Soviet boyhood through his globe-spanning career. Over a decade in the making, this biography arrives at a pivotal moment in Ratmansky's journey, one that has seen him painfully and publicly break ties with Russia, the country in which he made his name, in solidarity with his native Ukraine, and take on a new challenge at the storied New York City Ballet. Told with the lyricism, drama, and verve that befit its subject, The Boy from Kyiv is a riveting account of this major artist's ascent to the peaks of his field, a mesmerizing study of creativity in action, and a triumphant testament to ballet's enduring vitality.

Author: Marina Harss
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 10/03/2023
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374102616


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2023 pg. 25
Publishers Weekly 07/24/2023
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2023

About the Author
Marina Harss is a dance writer, journalist, and critic based in New York City. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Dance Magazine, and Fjord Review

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