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Jennifer Homans
Born
Chicago, The United States
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Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
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2010
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30 editions
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When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010
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2015
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3 editions
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Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
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2022
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7 editions
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9/11: Ten Years Later
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2011
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A celebration of India: [1991 artistic supplement
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Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century, Library Edition
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“Words, moreover, can get in the way of dancing. They signal self-conscious thought, and the moment they play through a dancer's mind her concentration and the way she responds physically to music risk changing. Words can distance a dancer from the music and from her own impulses, and make her movement appear remote and flat.”
― Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
― Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
“Finally, after years of study and watching, I realized our teachers were not just teaching steps or imparting technical knowledge, they were giving us their culture and their tradition. “Why” was not the point and the steps were not just steps; they were living, breathing evidence of a lost (to us) past—of what their dances were like but also of what they, as artists and people, believed in.”
― Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
― Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
“Ballet … was a system of movement as rigorous and complex as any language. Like Latin or ancient Greek, it had rules, conjugations, declensions. Its laws, moreover, were not arbitrary; they corresponded to the laws of nature. Getting it “right” was not a matter of opinion or tastes: ballet was a hard science with demonstrable physical facts. It was also, and just as appealingly, full of emotions and the feelings that come with music and movement...If the coordination and musicality, muscular impulse and timing were exactly right, the body would take over. I could let go. For all its rules and limits, [ballet is] an escape from the self. Being free.”
― Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
― Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
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