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100 1 _aAloff, Mindy,
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245 1 0 _aDance anecdotes :
_bstories from the worlds of ballet, Broadway, the ballroom, and modern dance /
_cMindy Aloff.
264 1 _aOxford ;
_aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2006.
300 _aviii, 272 pages ;
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336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and index.
505 0 0 _tTowering figures --
_tMarie Taglioni --
_tAnna Pavlova --
_tVaslav Nijinsky --
_tIsadora Duncan --
_tMartha Graham --
_tMargot Fonteyn --
_tSir Frederick Ashton --
_tGeorge Balanchine --
_tOf steps and their authorship --
_tMusic makes me ... --
_tThe rehearsal room --
_tCoaches and teachers --
_tHands and things that can fill them --
_tBalletomania and other thrills --
_tInspiration --
_tSeductions attempted, surmised, and realized --
_tCritical lines --
_tTurning points --
_tFrom stage to page --
_tFauna --
_tScandals --
_tTouring --
_tThe theaters --
_tCostumes, footgear, and hair do's and don'ts --
_tMakeup --
_tConductors --
_tDancing and related theatrical professions --
_tDancing the movies --
_tInjuries, maladies, misfortunes, and cures --
_tOn partnering and partnerships --
_tA mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound --
_tSets and stagecraft --
_tBig pictures --
_tAfterword : a note on anecdotes as ingredients of dance history.
520 1 _a"Mindy Aloff, a leading dance critic who has written for The Nation, The New Republic, and The New Yorker, has brought together here a marvelous book of stories by and about dancers - entertaining and informative anecdotes that capture the boundless variety and richness of dance as an art, a tradition, a profession, a pastime, an obsession, a reality, and, for the dancer, an ideal." "Many of the stories are amusing, but some are rueful, even sad, and a few are dark. Aloff concludes the volume with an essay about how dancing has been able to record its past, sometimes over centuries, and about how the art of the dancer, apparently as ephemeral in performance as cloud patterns, turns out, when conditions are hospitable, to be much more hardy and resilient than many people suppose." "A glorious promenade of stories that stretch a far back as classical times and as far afield as Japan, India, and Java, this superb collection will be treasured by everyone who loves dance, whether young or old."--BOOK JACKET.
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