Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia by Lynn Garafola, Janice Ross

Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia

Lynn Garafola, Janice Ross

536 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir informative slow-paced
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The powerfully moving story of the Russian Jewish choreographer who used dance to challenge despotism Everyone has heard of George Balanchine, but few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine’s contemporary and arguably his equal, who re...

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