| Ballet 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving the Ballet Contributor(s): Greskovic, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0879103256 ISBN-13: 9780879103255 Publisher: Limelight OUR PRICE: $26.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2005 Annotation: Like "Opera 101", its successful predecessor, "Ballet 101" takes an already popular yet sometimes intimidating subject and makes it accessible and understandable for everyone. Noted dance critic and teacher Robert Greskovic has written an entertaining, reader-friendly book that provides everything the novice needs to learn and to enjoy the ballet. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Ballet - Performing Arts | Dance - Classical & Ballet |
| Dewey: 792.8 |
| LCCN: 2005025425 |
| Series: Limelight |
| Physical Information: 1.28" H x 5.54" W x 8.32" (1.59 lbs) 658 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |