Ever since George Balanchine arrived on the American dance scene in 1933, his revolutionary, fleet-footed repertoire has been immortalized in the ballet canon.
Yet most of the works he created in Russia as a budding choreographer have been lost to history--until now.
In the first book to focus exclusively on Balanchine's Russian ballets, Elizabeth Kattner offers new insights into the artistic evolution of a legend through her reconstruction of his first group ballet, Funer.