Ballet in the Cold War

Ballet in the Cold War
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Total Pages : 199
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ISBN-10 : 9780190945107
ISBN-13 : 0190945109
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Download or read book Ballet in the Cold War written by Anne Searcy and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the full story of the earliest Soviet-American ballet exchanges, in which the governments of the USSR and the United States sent their most prestigious ballet companies on tours to the other country. Author Anne Searcy draws on Soviet- and American- archival sources and shows the spectacular misunderstandings that happened when audiences trained to view one type of ballet saw a very different style.


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