Ballet 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving the Ballet

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.