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Article Excerpt
All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine By Terry Teachout. New York: Harcourt, 2004. 208 pp. Illustrated. $22.
George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker By Robert Gottlieb. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. 224 pp. Illustrated. $19.95.
"It's like watching light pass through a prism," said Martha Graham on the only occasion (in 1959) when she watched George Balanchine choreograph. What she meant was that music seemed to pass through him and become, with no visible effort, dance steps. Indeed, all different kinds of dance steps, tailored to all different kinds of music, poured out of Balanchine over the 79 years of his life (1904-1983). He made such a vast repertoire for his New York City, Ballet, full of such a range of moods, that if you try to find one work to show "the Balanchine style," it's impossible.
This poses a challenge for biographers. How do you find the personality' of someone who had the ability, to dissolve his very identity in the music? Still, two new short biographies try to catch the man behind the work. They're both by respected critics: Terry Teachout and Robert Gottlieb. They're published this year...
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