Bloomsbury Ballerina

Author : Judith Mackrell
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780227086
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloomsbury Ballerina written by Judith Mackrell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mackrell's enthralling biography restores Lydia Lopokova to her rightful position centre-stage' DAILY MAIL 'Superb ... Mackrell, with her insider's knowledge of ballet and theatre, lovingly recreates Lydia's many worlds' GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW 'A hugely entertaining and informative study of the Ballets Russes star' SPECTATOR Born in 1891 in St Petersburg, Lydia Lopokova lived a long and remarkable life. Her vivacious personality and the sheer force of her charm propelled her to the top of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. Through a combination of luck, determination and talent, Lydia became a star in Paris, a vaudeville favourite in America, the toast of Britain and then married the world-renowned economist, and formerly homosexual, John Maynard Keynes. Lydia's story links ballet and the Bloomsbury group, war, revolution and the economic policies of the super-powers. She was an immensely captivating, eccentric and irreverent personality: a bolter, a true bohemian and, eventually, an utterly devoted wife.

Author : Judith Mackrell
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780227086
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloomsbury Ballerina written by Judith Mackrell and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mackrell's enthralling biography restores Lydia Lopokova to her rightful position centre-stage' DAILY MAIL 'Superb ... Mackrell, with her insider's knowledge of ballet and theatre, lovingly recreates Lydia's many worlds' GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW 'A hugely entertaining and informative study of the Ballets Russes star' SPECTATOR Born in 1891 in St Petersburg, Lydia Lopokova lived a long and remarkable life. Her vivacious personality and the sheer force of her charm propelled her to the top of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. Through a combination of luck, determination and talent, Lydia became a star in Paris, a vaudeville favourite in America, the toast of Britain and then married the world-renowned economist, and formerly homosexual, John Maynard Keynes. Lydia's story links ballet and the Bloomsbury group, war, revolution and the economic policies of the super-powers. She was an immensely captivating, eccentric and irreverent personality: a bolter, a true bohemian and, eventually, an utterly devoted wife.

Author : Victoria Rosner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107018242
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group written by Victoria Rosner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive guide to the storied Bloomsbury Group, a social circle of prominent intellectuals active during the interwar period.

Author : Kristyn Crow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802735819
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zombelina written by Kristyn Crow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zombelina loves to dance. She moonwalks with mummies and boogies with bats. She spins like a specter and glides like a ghost and loves to dance for her family the most. When Zombelina enrolls in a ballet class for real girls, her dancing gives everyone the chills! But when her first recital brings on a case of stage fright, her zombie moans and ghoulish groans scare her audience away. Only her devoted family's cheers, in their special spooky way, help Zombelina dance the ballet debut of her dreams. Introducing the most adorable zombie to ever grace the dance floor, Kristyn Crow's pitch-perfect rhyme and Molly Idle's charmingly spook-tacular illustrations will make every reader want to sway and sashay in their own zombie trance.

Author : Yelena Black
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408829975
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance of Shadows written by Yelena Black and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing with someone is an act of trust. Elegant and intimate; you're close enough to kiss, close enough to feel your partner's heartbeat. But for Vanessa, dance is deadly - and she must be very careful who she trusts . . .Vanessa Adler attends an elite ballet school - the same one her older sister, Margaret, attended before she disappeared. Vanessa feels she can never live up to her sister's shining reputation. But Vanessa, with her glorious red hair and fair skin, has a kind of power when she dances - she loses herself in the music, breathes different air, and the world around her turns to flames . . . Soon she attracts the attention of three men: gorgeous Zep, mysterious Justin, and the great, enigmatic choreographer Josef Zhalkovsky. When Josef asks Vanessa to dance the lead in the Firebird, she has little idea of the danger that lies ahead - and the burning forces about to be unleashed . . .

Author : E.H. Wright
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443862290
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloomsbury Influences written by E.H. Wright and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.” —T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, 1921 Bloomsbury Influences is an interdisciplinary essay collection developed from papers given at Bath Spa University’s Bloomsbury Adaptations Conference. The volume explores the ways that 20th and 21st century art, drama, fiction and philosophy have been influenced and inspired by the work of the Bloomsbury Group and their London milieu. By comparing and contrasting the artistic, philosophical and literary works of the Bloomsbury Group with later artists, writers and thinkers, such as the Singh Twins, Harold Bloom, C. K. Stead, Jeanette Winterson and Ali Smith, amongst many others, each essay examines how, in T. S. Eliot’s words, the past has been “altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past”.

Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher : Signal Books
ISBN 13 : 9781902669618
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from London written by Cyril Lionel Robert James and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals CLR James' first encounter with the colonial metropolis and the values that had already shaped his intellectual development in Trinidad. A resurrected 'classic', this book provides a hitherto inaccessible picture of the young man during his formative period.

Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300267568
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in Bloomsbury written by Marjorie Garber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of Shakespeare's profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group For the men and women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence and a creative benchmark. Not only the works they intended for publication--the novels, biographies, economic and political writings, stage designs and reviews--but also their diaries and correspondence, their gossip and small talk turned regularly on Shakespeare. They read his plays for pleasure in the evenings, and on sunny summer afternoons in the country. They went to the theater, discussed performances, and speculated about Shakespeare's mind. As poet, as dramatist, as model and icon, as elusive "life," Shakespeare haunted their imaginations and made his way, through phrase, allusion, and oblique reference, into their own lives and art. This is a book about Shakespeare in Bloomsbury--about the role Shakespeare played in the lives of a charismatic and influential cast, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova Keynes, Desmond and Molly MacCarthy, and James and Alix Strachey. All are brought to sparkling life in Marjorie Garber's intimate account of how Shakespeare provided them with a common language, a set of reference points, and a model for what they did not hesitate to call genius. Among these brilliant friends, Garber shows, Shakespeare was in effect another, if less fully acknowledged, member of the Bloomsbury Group.

Author : Bloomsbury
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408847329
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Pretty Pink Ballet Activity and Sticker Book written by Bloomsbury and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play spot the difference with the ballerinas, complete the ballet scene, help the ballerina through the maze and much more! This beautiful activity book is packed full with activities and stickers: perfect for little ballerinas everywhere! Bloomsbury Activity Books provide hours of colouring, doodling, stickering and activity fun for boys and girls alike. Every book includes enchanting, bright and beautiful illustrations which children and parents will find very hard to resist. Perfect for providing entertainment at home or on the move!

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1619631814
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance Divas: Showtime! written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama ensues for the Dancing Divas, a team of eight- to twelve-year-old girls who live to dance, as they rehearse in the studio and travel all around competing for titles.