Dance as life :
Stevens, Franklin
Dance as life : a season with American Ballet Theatre / Franklin Stevens. - New York : Avon Books, 1977,©1976. - 219 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - A Discus book. .
"Franklin Steven, a dancer turned writer, accomplishes a miracle in this splendid book about ballet. The miracle lies in the wayne captures the essence of dance and dancer, translates the language of movement and rhythm into words. It is a special performance, a book every balletomane will want for reading, reference, inspiration. The book grew out of Steven's own long love of ballet (he studied it for five years, gave it up for writing) and permission from the American Ballet Theatre to spend five months with the company. Stevens observed and set down what happened during these months, from classes to performances to tours. Beyond that the offers an exploration of dance itself - its history, the techniques of dancers, their attitudes, feelings, sweat, tears, and visions - that makes for some of the vital, precise, penetrating, and moving writing on the art and its world we have." Publishers Weekly
0380017113
74015855
American Ballet Theatre
Ballet
GV1786.A43 / S8 1977
792.80973 / STE
Dance as life : a season with American Ballet Theatre / Franklin Stevens. - New York : Avon Books, 1977,©1976. - 219 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - A Discus book. .
"Franklin Steven, a dancer turned writer, accomplishes a miracle in this splendid book about ballet. The miracle lies in the wayne captures the essence of dance and dancer, translates the language of movement and rhythm into words. It is a special performance, a book every balletomane will want for reading, reference, inspiration. The book grew out of Steven's own long love of ballet (he studied it for five years, gave it up for writing) and permission from the American Ballet Theatre to spend five months with the company. Stevens observed and set down what happened during these months, from classes to performances to tours. Beyond that the offers an exploration of dance itself - its history, the techniques of dancers, their attitudes, feelings, sweat, tears, and visions - that makes for some of the vital, precise, penetrating, and moving writing on the art and its world we have." Publishers Weekly
0380017113
74015855
American Ballet Theatre
Ballet
GV1786.A43 / S8 1977
792.80973 / STE