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 ÊSwan LakeÊ to Twyla Tharp's ÊPush Comes To ShoveÊ. 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.
| ISBN: | 9780879103255 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 2006 |
| Author: | Robert Greskovic |
| Publisher: | Limelight an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 634 pages |
| Series: | Limelight |
| Genres: |
Art music, orchestral and formal music Ballet |