Alla Osipenko: Beauty and Resistance in Soviet Ballet

by Joel Lobenthal

Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet State. She studied with Agrippina Vaganova, the most revered and influential of all Russian ballet instructors, and in 1950, she joined the Mariinsky (then-Kirov) Ballet, where her lines, shapes, and movements both exemplified the venerable traditions of Russian ballet and propelled those traditions forward...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190253703
• ISBN13: 9780190253707
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"