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In 1933, George Balanchine arrived in the United States, brought by even younger sponsors who had dreamed of inventing an American ballet. He came with extraordinary skills: he had trained as a child in Russias imperial dance academy, he had absorbed the utopian ideals of the Russian revolution, and he had spent nine years in a culturally volatile interwar Europe. But on a new continent, his career was blocked by local biases, global politics, and even his own character. His sponsors had their own ideas of what this new art should look like. A bigger-scale, European-based ballet company was crowding into the U.S. arts scene. A combination of Balanchines loneliness and ill-health, both traceable to the revolutionary turmoil of his native city, St. Petersburg, were pushing him towards romantic obsessions with young female dancers - obsessions that seem today to border on the unethical. nBalanchine Finds His America provides a close-up of this crucial time in the life of a young immigrant choreographer who would become one of the 20th centurys greatest artists. It opens on Balanchines first day in the United States and closes 13 years later, with the cultures recognition of his importance. Along the way, it sketches in the extreme politics of his time from the Great Depression to WWII, evokes the places that inspired him from New York City to Hollywood, and charts the sexuality of longing that fueled his creative life, but also threatened his and his muses personal stability. It draws connections between Balanchines loves and the earliest ballets he made on American soil, especially his mysterious exploration of American romance, Serenade (1933), and his even more mysterious 1946 masterwork, The Four Temperaments, that pointed the way to Americas victorious postwar art of abstraction. n nMost of all, this book highlights the young Balanchines tragic yet triumphant inner journey towards American-ness, and the impact of this journey on the ballet organizations he helped form and the legacy he left the world.n
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