Dance Anecdotes: Stories from the Worlds of Ballet, Broadway, the Ballroom, and Modern Dance

by Mindy Aloff

Book Overview

Mindy Aloff, a leading dance critic who has written for The Nation, The New Republic, and The New Yorker, has brought together here a marvelous book of stories by and about dancers--entertaining and informative anecdotes that capture the boundless variety and richness of dance as an art, a tradition, a profession, a pastime, an obsession, a reality, and, for the dancer, an ideal.
George Balanchine is here, and so are Fred Astaire, Margot Fonteyn,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195054113
• ISBN13: 9780195054118
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 6.3"