Like a Bomb Going Off

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<b>ENG</b><p><span><i>Like A Bomb Going Off </i>explores the rich and complex history of twentieth-century ballet and the even more complex history of the expressive arts in the Soviet Union through the lens of one of its most relentless renegades Leonid Yakobson. A tightly focused and fascinating study of Leonid Yakobson's work this biography presents its subject through the multiple ideologies of which he was both a product and a critic offering a view of him as an artist a citizen a Jew and a man of high-minded principle. Yakobson a contradictory and fascinating artist challenged censors staging resistance from within the most public vocabulary of compliance - classical ballet. Ross’s book traces how Yakobson was an artist of contradictions a modernist who made war on ballet and used unconventional movement while making dances for the leading Soviet companies and Russia’s greatest dancers.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>RUS</b></p><p><span>В своей книге Дженис Росс исследует богатую и сложную историю советского балета сквозь призму творчества одного из главных возмутителей спокойствия Леонида Якобсона. Якобсон бросал вызов цензорам преодолевая жесткие эстетические рамки статичного и консервативного советского балета. Он был художником противоречий модернистом произведения которого созданные в мрачные времена придали новый смысл роли человека танцующего.</span><br></p>
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