num_pages: 658
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 “All the things that ballet fans talk about at intermission, while newcomers stand there wondering what they 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.”
language: English
title: Ballet 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving the Ballet
titlecomplete: Ballet 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving the Ballet (Limelight)
genres: Reference, History, Art, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 56
publisher: Limelight