Ballet 101: a complete guide to learning and loving the ballet, paperback/robert greskovic

Veteran dance writer Robert Greskovics 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 Tharps Push Comes To Shove.

, As Mikhail Baryshnikov states in the books 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.