Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Permissions xi
5. List of Illustrations xiii
6. A Note on Transliteration xxiii
7. Introduction: Reconnecting Modernisms 1
8. PART ONE KYIV: ‘SPECIAL AND BEWILDERING’
9. 1. Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation 13
10. 2 ‘A Theatrical Mecca’: The Stages of Kyiv in 1907 26
11. 3 ‘Special and Bewildering’: A Portrait of Late-Imperial and Early Soviet Kyiv 52
12. 4 Three Novels, Three Cities 98
13. 5 Film in Kyiv, 1910–1916 139
14. PART 2 KYIV THE EPICENTRE
15. In the Epicentre of Abstraction: Kyiv during the Time of Kurbas 167
16. 7 The Yiddish Kultur-Lige 197
17. 8 Politics and the Ukrainian Avant-garde 219
18. 9 Kyiv’s Multicultural Theatrical Life, 1917–1926 243
19. PART 3 ‘FIRE AND MOTION’
20. 10 Towards a New Vision of Theatre: Les Kurbas’s Work at the Young Theatre in Kyiv 275
21. 11 The Choreographic Avant-garde in Kyiv, 1916–1921: Bronislava Nijinska and Her École de Mouvement 311
22. 12 Kyiv, the 1920s, and Modernism in Music 322
23. 13 Music in the Theatre of Les Kurbas 343
24. PART 4 THE INVISIBLE MADE VISIBLE
25. 14 Les Kurbas’s Early Work at the Berezil: From Bodies in Motion to Performing the Invisible 359
26. 15 Abstraction and Ukrainian Futurist Literature 387
27. 16 The Graphic Arts: From Page Design to Theatre 408
28. 17 Dissecting Time/Space: The Scottish Play and the New Technology of Film 443
29. 18 On the World Stage: The Berezil in Paris and New York 479
30. PART 5 ELEGIES: REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE PAST
31. 19 Vsevolod Meyerhold and Les Kurbas 515
32. 20 Les Kurbas and the Spiritual Foundations of the Ukrainian Avant-garde 538
33. Appendices 569
34. Contributors 589
35. Index of Names and Titles 593