TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greskovic,Robert
TI  - Ballet 101: a complete guide to learning and loving the ballet 
SN  - 0879103256
AV  - GV1787 .G74 2005
U1  - 792.8 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Pompton Plains, N.J.
PB  - Limelight Editions
KW  - Ballet
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
N1  - Originally published: New York : Hyperion, 1998; Videography: p. 531-590; Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-605) and index; Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: History Of Ballet -- 1: Let the history begin -- 2: Le ballet: a man's world -- 3: Ballerinas and the Danse d' Ecole -- 4: Gentle women and gentle men of the ballet -- 5: Pre-romantic and romantic eras -- 6: French art in Danish and Russian quarters -- 7: Grand Pa Petipa and his empire -- 8: Russia surpasses France -- 9: Diaghilev does Paris -- 10: Ballet's roving ambassadress -- 11: Nijinska and neoclassicism -- 12: George Balanchine in Europe -- 13: Ballet takes root in Britain -- 14: Fred and Margot -- 15: Paris, opera, and ballet -- 16: Soviet Russia, Nureyev, England, and the world -- 17: Rudi in England and around the world -- 18: America, ballet, and Balanchine -- 19: America, New York City, and ballet -- 20: Beyond the Paris opera and beyond Paris -- 21: Starry nights -- 22: Top three and more -- 23: At war and peace with modern dance -- 24: Back in the USSR -- 25: Far from Denmark -- 26: Leading male dancers lead -- 27: Harlem, Cuba, China, Japan, South America -- 28: Postscript: dancers, dancers, dancers -- Part 2: Dancers -- 1: Ladies and gentlemen of the ballet -- 2: Men and women at work -- 3: Boys to men -- 4: Corpsmen and middlemen -- 5: Primo ballerinos -- 6: Corps de Ballet Feminin -- 7: Queen bees -- Part 3: Looking At A Ballet -- 1: Looking at ballets -- 2: Ballets without stories -- 3: Getting ballet on the stage -- 4: Revivals and resurrections -- 5: Salut du Roi -- Part 4: Famous Ballets -- 1: At the ballet -- 2: Romantic classical ballet: Swan Lake -- 3: Popular beyond ballet: the Nutcracker -- 4: Classical classical ballet: the Sleeping Beauty -- 5: Mature romantic ballet: Giselle -- 6: Ballet embodying the ideal: La Sylphide -- 7: Ballet of mood: Les Sylphides -- 8: Romantic turning classical: La Bayadere -- 9: Renewing classicism: Apollo -- 10: Neo-romanticism, neo-primitivism, and neoclassicism: Diaghilev's Ballet Russes triple bill -- 11: Sunny and funny and fine: La Fille Mal Gardee -- 12: Romantic: small "r," big emotions: Romeo and Juliet -- 13: Pushing and shoving ballet a bit: push comes to shove -- Glossary of ballet terms and phrases -- Videography -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
N2  - From the Publisher: 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 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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