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 ESwan LakeE to Twyla Tharp's EPush Comes To ShoveE. 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.

About the Author
Robert Greskovic, a former teacher of dance history, has been a dance writer and critic since 1972.

Reviews
"(robert Greskovic) has been thinking about ballet - watching it, reading, writing, and talking about it - day after day for more than 30 years. He knows it through and through. Now he shares his knowledge" - Mikhail Baryshnikov, from the Foreword"



Book Information
ISBN 9780879103255
Author Robert Greskovic
Format Paperback
Page Count 658
Imprint Limelight Editions
Publisher Limelight Editions
Weight(grams) 871g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 39mm