TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stevens,Franklin
TI  - Dance as life: a season with American Ballet Theatre 
SN  - 0380017113
AV  - GV1786.A43 S8 1977
U1  - 792.80973 20
PY  - 1977///,©1976
CY  - New York
PB  - Avon Books
KW  - American Ballet Theatre
KW  - Ballet
N2  - "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
ER  -