{"product_id":"alighting-from-the-air-karen-eliot-9780197763209","title":"Alighting from the Air: Tamara Karsavina, Dancer and Writer","description":"Tamara 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 Drawing from Karsavina's many published and unpublished writings, \u003cem\u003e Alighting from the Air\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates how her experiences and training contributed to the development of her aesthetic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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karen Eliot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197763200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197763209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Karen Eliot","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48450342060287,"sku":"9780197763209","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d112649-bdbf-4fcb-abb4-589b31e67d19.jpg?v=1777267243","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/alighting-from-the-air-karen-eliot-9780197763209","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}