Andre Levinson
André Yacovlev Levinson (in Russian Ru Андрей (Андрэ) ЯковлевичЛевинсон) is a Journaliste French of Danse, born on November 1st 1887 with Saint-Pétersbourg, dead the December 3rd 1933 with Paris.
Professor of language and literature Frenchwomen in Saint-Pétersbourg, it leaves the Russia in 1919 and, after a short passage by the Lithuania and the Germany, it settles in Paris in 1921, where it gives courses of Russian literature to the Sorbonne. Until its premature death, it publishes works on the romantic Ballet, on Théophile Gautier, Marie Taglioni, Argentina, Leon Bakst, Michel Fokine, the Russian Ballets, Serge Lifar and Paul Valéry.
Critical and historian of the dance scholar, it knew to throw on the dance a new glance and to provide the foundations of a new esthetic reflection. Taking as a starting point the work of Henri Focillon, Élie Faure and Heinrich Wölfflin on the Visual arts, it observes from day to day, lasting thirty years, all the forms of dance of its time and assists, while being released from the academic references of the 19th century, with the choreographic boiling of the Années 1920 and 1930, of the Russian Ballets with the alarm clock of the Ballet of the Opera of Paris, while passing by the emergence of the modern Danse europénne.
Principal works
- Meister of the Ballets , Potsdam, Müller & Co, 1923.
- Argentina. With study in spanish dance hall , Paris, Chronic editions of the Day, 1928.
- Dance of today , Paris, Duchartre and Van Buggenhoudt, 1929. Republished at Actes Sud in 1990, under the title 1929, dance of today .
- Faces of the dance , Paris, Grasset, 1933.
External bonds
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