Ballet 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving the Ballet

Veteran dance writer Robert Greskovic's comprehensive handbook on how to watch and appreciate the ballet is now available in this new edition. It includes a complete analysis of sixteen important and popular ballets, from Swan Lake to Twyla Tharp's Push Comes To Shove., As Mikhail Baryshnikov states in the book's foreword: "All the things that ballet fans talk about at intermission, while newcomers stand there wondering what they mean: those things are here...(Robert Greskovic) has been thinking about ballet --- watching it, reading, writing, and talking about it --- day after day for more than thirty years. He knows it through and through. Now he shares his knowledge."

Author: Robert Greskovic
Publisher: Limelight
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 658
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.54w x 1.28d
ISBN13: 9780879103255
ISBN10: 0879103256
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles | Ballet
- Performing Arts | Dance | Classical & Ballet