Days With Ulanova: An Intimate Portrait of the Legendary Russian Ballerina
By Albert E. Kahn and Arnold L. Haskell
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As a result of his friendship with Ulanova, writer-photographer Albert E. Kahn had the singular opportunity to study Ulanova as dancer, teacher, performer, warm friend, and a shy, modest woman seeking solitude among her beloved birch groves in the Russian countryside. Kahn has captured it all in words and pictures—from the magnificent performances to the intimate glimpses of her day-to-day life.
“Days with Ulanova is the most exciting ballet book I have ever seen.”—Anatole Chujoy, Editor of The Dance Encyclopedia
“All lovers of the dance, as well as libraries, museums and schools, will welcome this treasure of a book.”—Arthur Todd, New York Times
“Mr. Kahn’s work is without precedent in the theatre world. His photographs of Ulanova are undoubtedly the finest imaginary job of visual commentary on any dancer.”—Genevieve Oswald, Curator Dance Collection, Library & Museum of Performing Arts, Lincoln Center
“The particular treasure of her life has been lovingly and sensitively apprehended. Mr. Kahn has made us all a wonderfully valuable gift.”—Dance Magazine
“This book must rank among the half-dozen most beautiful books on ballet ever published…a monument and a memorial.”—P. W. Manchester, Dance News
Albert E. Kahn
ALBERT EUGENE KAHN (1912-1979) was an American journalist, photographer, author and nephew of modernist industrial architect Albert Kahn. Born on May 11, 1912 in London, England into an affluent politically conservative Jewish family, he was educated in the United States, where he attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Dartmouth College. He graduated Dartmouth Class Poet in 1932 and, after marrying in 1934, moved to California, where he became executive secretary of the American Council Against Nazi Propaganda. A writer of singular versatility, Kahn had earned a celebrated international reputation for his political exposés prior to his widely acclaimed work on Galina Ulanova. His book Sabotage!, dealing with Fascist conspiratorial activities, was one of the top best-sellers of the Second World War; and his subsequent books on secret diplomacy and the Cold War era were translated into more than twenty languages. Permanent collections of his photographic studies of Ulanova and Casals are housed at the Library and Museum of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Art; and the Dartmouth College Library. Kahn died on September 15, 1979, aged 67. ARNOLD L. HASKELL (1903-1980) was a British dance critic who founded the Camargo Society in 1930. He was influential in the development of the Royal Ballet School, later becoming the school’s headmaster. He went to Australia in 1936 with the visiting Monte Carlo Russian Ballet as a publicist/reporter, writing articles and reviews for several Australian newspapers and journals. He returned to Australia in 1938 to gather material for Waltzing Matilda: A Background to Australia (1943) and continued writing articles and reviews for Australian newspapers and magazines. In 1974, Haskell was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters) by the University of Bath.
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