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Highly engaging and entertaining collection of interviews, profiles and review - mostly about ballet.
I am only done with this becuase I have to take it back to the library. I wish I owned it. It's incredible! Some of the best writing on dance, ever.
I love dance and reading about dance, but this one was a bit difficult to get through.
This book is a fantastic example of a multi-source, multi-author anthology, the kind of anthology intended to give a reader a clear and many-angled view of a general subject, in this case, dance. I jumped in without knowing much about the history of dance (only that ballet comes to us from Italy by way of France and migrated westward sometime during the Renaissance); so I would liken my opening this book to the experience of sitting down to a smorgasboard of really exotic food. Make that an all-...
I have an essay in this book! "Graham Crackers"!
An endlessly interesting read that is plagued by issues in both its curation and roundness of subject. More often than not, writers would reference writings of other critics or dancers that are not included in the collection. While omitting every referential article would weaken the overall collection, when we find Susan Sontag and Edwin Denby both explicitly calling Théophile Gautier (who's works are not included in the book) the greatest dance critic of the 19th century, you would hope to have...