Balanchine and the lost muse : revolution and the making of a choreographer

Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend, extraordinary ballerina Lidia (Lidochka) Ivanova. A talented and bold dancer who grew close to the Bolshevik elite in her adolescent years, Ivanova was a source of great inspiration to Balanchineboth during their youth together, and later in his life, after her mysterious death in 1924, just days before they had planned to leave Russia together.