Tributes: Celebrating Fifty Years of New York City Ballet

by New York City Ballet, Christopher Ramsey (Editor), Peter Martins (Preface)

From its beginning, New York City Ballet embodied a bold, modern idea of dance that resonated in every other art. The ompany and its dances inspired artists of every medium from Manhattan to St. Petersburg to Paris to myriad cultural havens around the world. Oversize and replete with lavish color, Tributes is a showcase for the exquisite art, sets, costumes, photography, poetry, and writing the City Ballet has inspired in the great creative minds of our time. An impressionistic portrait of the American treasure, Tributes pays homage to the Ballet and to the people who created it -- from George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein to Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins, to the dancers, artists, and composers whose artistic fantasies became stunning reality on stage. Boasting the most comprehensive repertory list to span the Company's fifty-year history and a complete chronology discography, and videography, Tributes is also a definitive history of the Company. This is an elegant celebration of New York City Ballet with full-color art and writing from the century's greatest artists and authors, who have been entranced and seduced by the premier dance company in the world. A luxurious celebration of New York City Ballet, Tributes is a must-have for every balletomane and lover of the arts.

Genres: Nonfiction, Photography, Art

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1924

Reviews

[James Carrigy · Rating 4 out of 5]

8/10

I was just expecting this to be a conventional history of a beloved New York City institution, but Susan Sontag writes a bit, and Nikki Giovanni does as well, and then Robert A. Caro shows up out of nowhere?! Greatest city in the world right there.

[Surreysmum · Rating 4 out of 5]

[These notes were made in 2004]. "A celebration of the world's premier dance company by this century's towering figures in arts and letters." Preface by Peter Martins; foreword by Mikhail Baryshnikov. A somewhat different approach to a major anniversary -- poetry, painting, etc. inspired by the NYCB, as well as costume & set designs created for it; the volume also contains samples of great dance photography. A sumptuous mixture of black and white and colour - there is a full-colour fold-out plate of a Chagall backdrop design, for instance. And, of course, lots of critical thought and reminiscence about the company and its directors.

[Delaney · Rating 3 out of 5]

really dang boring and I’m a ballet dancer.

[heather jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful book- photos of NYCB dancers, ballets, choreograohers, costumes, set designs etc... a gor-ge-ous book!

[Jody · Rating 3 out of 5]

not as exciting as I had hoped