{"product_id":"alighting-from-the-air-tamara-karsavina-dancer-and-writer-hardcover","title":"Alighting from the Air: Tamara Karsavina, Dancer and Writer - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaren Eliot\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTamara Karsavina (1885-1978) was known as a renowned ballerina, writer, and intellectual. Drawing from Karsavina's many published and unpublished writings, \u003cem\u003e Alighting from the Air\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates how her experiences and training contributed to the development of her aesthetic credo. She became a celebrated principal dancer at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, assumed a leading role in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and was noted for embodying Michel Fokine's choreographic innovations. In 1930, she published her popular memoir, \u003cem\u003eTheatre Street\u003c\/em\u003e, describing her rise through the ranks of the Imperial Russian ballet and escape with her British husband and son from revolutionary Russia to England. Her substantial record of publication includes articles devoted to aspects of classical ballet technique, and decades of essays, published mostly in \u003cem\u003eDancing Times\u003c\/em\u003e. These wide-ranging articles document not only her performance experience with the Ballets Russes and in her own tours but ballet pedagogy and history more generally. Her work also analyzes ballet choreographies and reflects on classical ballets and steps or expressive elements that she feared were lost in contemporary productions. \u003cem\u003eAlighting from the Air\u003c\/em\u003e weaves together the narrative of Karsavina's life with analyses of her writings to foreground her development as an intellectual and an artist aware of, and sensitive to, the classical and modern arts movements of her time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Eliot\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor Emerita and member of the Emeritus Academy at The Ohio State University. Prior to teaching at OSU, Eliot danced in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Awards include the Ronald and Deborah Ratner Award for Distinguished Teaching (2019) and OSU's Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching (2016). Her books include\u003cem\u003e Albion's Dance: The British Ballet during the Second World War\u003c\/em\u003e (2016); \u003cem\u003eDancing Lives: Five Female Dancers from the Ballet d'Action to Merce Cunningham \u003c\/em\u003e(2007); and with coeditor Melanie Bales, \u003cem\u003eDance on Its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies \u003c\/em\u003e(2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 16, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53273692963123,"sku":"9780197763209","price":186.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/362VKToZZd9780197763209.webp?v=1776891496","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/alighting-from-the-air-tamara-karsavina-dancer-and-writer-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}