Veteran dance writer Robert Greskovic's comprehensive handbook on how towatch and appreciate the ballet is now available in this new edition. I t 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 thingsthat ballet fans talk about at intermission, while newcomers stand ther e 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.”
