Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet

by Laura Jacobs

Book Overview

A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of ballet As much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker , for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad -- in Russia, Italy, and France. In Celestial Bodies , dance critic Laura Jacobs makes the foreign familiar, providing a lively, poetic, and uniquely accessible introduction to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465098479
• ISBN13: 9780465098477
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"