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Zusatztext "Dance Anecdotes is a collection of amazing originality and range and variety. Mindy Aloff's selections are all new to me, despite fifty years as a dancer and teacher, and of reading on dance. Many of her sources are people we do not usually hear from, and all of them have something precious to tell us. I learned new details about choreography and performance quality. I now know about some important lives. Sometimes I laughed, sometimes I felt very sad, sometimes I felt the warmth of fond memory, sometimes I felt regret over what I missed. I gained fresh insight even into dance people I knew well myself. I have better understanding of many from the past and present whom I did not know. This book is a necessary addition to any dance-lover's collection." --Suki Schorer, Brown Foundation Senior Faculty Chair at the School of American Ballet, and author of Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique Informationen zum Autor Mindy Aloff teaches dance criticism and essay writing at Barnard College and the Eugene Lang College of The New School. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and many other publications in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She writes the "Letter from New York" column for The Dance View Times (www.danceviewtimes.com), edits the Dance Critics Association Newsletter, and consults for The George BalanchineFoundation. She lives in New York City. Klappentext A leading dance critic who has written for "The Nation! The New Republic!" and "The New Yorker" brings together a marvelous book of stories by and about dancers. Zusammenfassung An entertaining and informative collection of stories that capture the boundless variety and richness of dance as an art, a traditin, a profession, an obsession, and an ideal.
