Limelight

A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving the Ballet

By: Robert Greskovic

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Paperback | 1 November 2005

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(Limelight). Veteran dance writer Robert Greskovic's comprehensive handbook on how to watch and appreciate the ballet is now available in this new edition. It 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 things that ballet fans talk about at intermission, while newcomers stand there 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."

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"(robert Greskovic) has been thinking about ballet - watching it, reading, writing, and talking about it - day after day for more than 30 years. He knows it through and through. Now he shares his knowledge" - Mikhail Baryshnikov, from the Foreword"

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Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
The History of Ballet
Let the History Begin ...	p. 3
Le Ballet: A Man's World	p. 11
Ballerinas and the Danse d'Ecole	p. 15
Gentle Women and Gentle Men of the Ballet	p. 22
The Pre-Romantic and Romantic Eras	p. 28
French Art in Danish and Russian Quarters	p. 35
Grand Pa Petipa and His Empire	p. 40
Russia Surpasses France	p. 47
Diaghilev Does Paris	p. 51
Ballet's Roving Ambassadress	p. 60
Nijinska and Neoclassicism	p. 63
George Balanchine in Europe	p. 66
Ballet Takes Root in Britain	p. 72
Fred and Margot	p. 78
Paris, Opera, and Ballet	p. 84
Soviet Russia, Nureyev, England, and the World	p. 90
Rudi in England and Around the World	p. 98
America, Ballet, and Balanchine	p. 102
America, New York City, and Ballet	p. 107
Beyond the Paris Opera and Beyond Paris	p. 112
Starry Nights	p. 116
A Top Three and More	p. 120
At War and Peace with Modern Dance	p. 123
Back in the USSR	p. 127
Far from Denmark	p. 131
Leading Male Dancers Lead	p. 134
Harlem, Cuba, China, Japan, South America	p. 137
Post-Script: Dancers, Dancers, Dancers	p. 141
The Dancers
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Ballet	p. 145
Men and Women at Work	p. 150
Boys to Men	p. 161
Corpsmen and Middlemen	p. 164
Primo Ballerinos	p. 170
Corps de Ballet Feminin	p. 176
Queen Bees	p. 181
Looking At a Ballet
Looking at Ballets	p. 187
Ballets Without Stories	p. 197
Getting Ballet on the Stage	p. 202
Revivals and Resurrections	p. 206
Salut du Roi	p. 211
The Famous Ballets
At the Ballet	p. 217
Romantic Classical Ballet: Swan Lake	p. 222
Popular Beyond Ballet: The Nutcracker	p. 253
Classical Classical Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty	p. 273
Mature Romantic Ballet: Giselle	p. 298
Ballet Embodying the Ideal: La Sylphide	p. 325
Ballet of Mood: Les Sylphides	p. 347
Romantic Turning Classical: La Bayadere	p. 359
Renewing Classicism: Apollo	p. 382
Neo-Romanticism, Neo-Primitivism, and Neoclassicism: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Triple Bill	p. 397
Sunny and Funny and Fine: La Fille Mal Gardee	p. 419
Romantic: Small "r," Big Emotions: Romeo and Juliet	p. 448
Pushing and Shoving Ballet a Bit: Push Comes to Shove	p. 481
Glossary of Ballet Terms and Phrases	p. 499
Videography	p. 531
Selected Bibliography	p. 591
Acknowledgments	p. 607
Index	p. 609
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