Dance as life : a season with American Ballet Theatre / Franklin Stevens.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: A Discus bookPublication details: New York : Avon Books, 1977,©1976.Description: 219 p. : ill. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 0380017113
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 792.80973 STE
LOC classification:
  • GV1786.A43 S8 1977
Summary: "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
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Books Books Academy of Music & Performing Arts Library General Stacks Non-fiction 792.80973 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Kindly donated by J. Dyson A06425
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792.80973 SHE The people have never stopped dancing : 792.80973 SIE The shapes of change : 792.80973 SIE At the vanishing point : 792.80973 STE Dance as life : 792.80973 TER The dance in America / 792.8097309045 PRE Dance for export : 792.809747 BEN Winter season :

"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

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