Ballet 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving the Ballet (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780879103255)

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
ISBN-10: 0879103256
ISBN-13: 9780879103255
Publisher: Limelight
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 658
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.54w x 1.28d