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.”