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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.

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"(robert Greskovic) has been thinking about ballet - watching it, reading, writing, and talking about it - day after day for more than 30 years. He knows it through and through. Now he shares his knowledge" - Mikhail Baryshnikov, from the Foreword"

Ballet 101

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A Paperback by Robert Greskovic

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    Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Publication Date: 12/15/2005 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780879103255, 978-0879103255
    ISBN10: 0879103256
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    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.

    Trade Review
    "(robert Greskovic) has been thinking about ballet - watching it, reading, writing, and talking about it - day after day for more than 30 years. He knows it through and through. Now he shares his knowledge" - Mikhail Baryshnikov, from the Foreword"

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