Grace Under Pressure: Passing Dance Through Time
...Barbara Newman establishes herself as the Studs Terkel of the dance world. --Asashi Evening News (Tokyo)...an inspired account of ballet and modern dance's twentieth-century journey by a seasoned critic with breathtaking knowledge... --The Royal Academy of Dance Gazette (London), Fall 2004...interviews with a difference...these compelling conversations assume the character of what the French call testaments. --Dance Magazine, June 2004...meticulous research and detailed observations...compelling and often disturbing reading...immensely inspiring. --Dancing Times (London), October 2004...provides the reader with a vibrant insight into today's dance culture...ideal for the neophyte and the expert alike. --Country Life, June 2004...reveal[s] some of the old and new complexities that exist in this ever more rapidly changing world. --Dance Now, Summer 2004Barbara Newman's Grace under Pressure is an unusually stimulating book. --Koeglerjournal, January 2005This book is loaded with questions, all of them crucial to the future [of dance]... --Time Out London, August 2004[O]ne of the most informative and illuminating studies of ballet from any time. --Mindy Aloff, Dance Critics Association News, Winter 2005