The Boy From Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky's Life in Ballet
by Marina Harss
Buy on AmazonThe Boy from Kyiv is the life story of Alexei Ratmansky, the most celebrated ballet choreographer of our time. Alexei Ratmansky is “the most sought-after man in ballet” (The New Yorker). At just thirty-five years of age, he was named artistic director at Moscow’s famed Bolshoi Ballet. He went on to be appointed the resident choreographer at the American Ballet Theatre in New York, a post he held for 13 years, and is set to join the New York City Ballet as Artist in Residence in Fall of 2023. He has created magnificent new works for the world’s most revered ballet companies, breathing fresh, exquisite new life into this allegedly moribund art form.…
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"Dance writer Marina Harss follows famed Ukrainian Russian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky from birth to the present day in a revelatory book about how he evolved into the internationally sought-after choreographer of the moment. Illustrated with beautiful photographs, this book is a must-read for balletomanes keen to understand Ratmansky’s Russian, Canadian and Danish influences, as well as his full-bore immersion into American ballet. It is also for readers who want to learn how a world-spanning dance career that includes two sides of an ongoing war unfolds."
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