Grace under pressure :
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Grace under pressure : passing dance through time / Barbara Newman. - 1st Limelight ed. - New York, N.Y. : Proscenium Publishers, 2003. - 480 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- In the Classroom : On the Job : In Creation and Revival : In the Details : In the Studio : Postscript -- Endnotes -- Index. Suki Schorer, School of American Ballet -- Kathryn Wade, English National Ballet School -- Marc Du Bouays, Paris Opera Ballet School -- Anne Marie Vessel, Royal Danish Ballet School -- Maina Gielgud -- Helgi Tomasson, San Francisco Ballet -- David Bintley, Birmingham Royal Ballet -- Francia Russell, Pacific Northwest Ballet -- Mark Morris -- Jean-Pierre Frohlic -- Shelley Washington -- Yuri Fateyev -- Sorella Englund -- Violette Verdy -- Irina Kolpakova -- Margaret Mercier -- Robert Denvers -- Violette Verdy -- Richard Thomas --
"A critic and writer on dance for well over twenty years, Barbara Newman has gone in search of teachers and coaches, directors, choreographers and stagers -- former dancers who had turned the focus of their own experience on others -- to explain the state of ballet today. Among leaders of the dance world the author interviewed were Suki Schorer, Helgi Tomasson, Mark Morris, Violette Verdy and 14 other artists whose work she knew and respected, most of them active outside of New York and London. Newman is not interested in dance as an aesthetic abstraction, and the people who answered her questions were not speaking theoretically. On the contrary, her speculation and their responses bring an elusive subject down to earth, illuminating a process that reaches back in history and forward to today, though its dreams are of a world no one can imagine." - Nielsen Book Data
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Grace under pressure : passing dance through time / Barbara Newman. - 1st Limelight ed. - New York, N.Y. : Proscenium Publishers, 2003. - 480 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- In the Classroom : On the Job : In Creation and Revival : In the Details : In the Studio : Postscript -- Endnotes -- Index. Suki Schorer, School of American Ballet -- Kathryn Wade, English National Ballet School -- Marc Du Bouays, Paris Opera Ballet School -- Anne Marie Vessel, Royal Danish Ballet School -- Maina Gielgud -- Helgi Tomasson, San Francisco Ballet -- David Bintley, Birmingham Royal Ballet -- Francia Russell, Pacific Northwest Ballet -- Mark Morris -- Jean-Pierre Frohlic -- Shelley Washington -- Yuri Fateyev -- Sorella Englund -- Violette Verdy -- Irina Kolpakova -- Margaret Mercier -- Robert Denvers -- Violette Verdy -- Richard Thomas --
"A critic and writer on dance for well over twenty years, Barbara Newman has gone in search of teachers and coaches, directors, choreographers and stagers -- former dancers who had turned the focus of their own experience on others -- to explain the state of ballet today. Among leaders of the dance world the author interviewed were Suki Schorer, Helgi Tomasson, Mark Morris, Violette Verdy and 14 other artists whose work she knew and respected, most of them active outside of New York and London. Newman is not interested in dance as an aesthetic abstraction, and the people who answered her questions were not speaking theoretically. On the contrary, her speculation and their responses bring an elusive subject down to earth, illuminating a process that reaches back in history and forward to today, though its dreams are of a world no one can imagine." - Nielsen Book Data
9780879109950 (pbk.) 0879109955 (pbk.)
2003019294
Dancers--Interviews
792.8092 / NEW