And Then Came Dance: The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom

by Stanley Rabinowitz

Presenting for the first time Akim Volynsky's (1861-1926) pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida Rubinstein, and Lou Andreas-Salome, And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the origins of Volynsky's life-altering journey to become Russia's foremost ballet critic. A man for whom the realm of art was largely female in form and whose all-encompassing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190943378
• ISBN13: 9780190943370
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"