Ballet 101 : A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving the Ballet ([New ed.])

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.