The Joffrey Ballet: Robert Joffrey and the Making of an American Dance Company

by Sasha Anawalt

Book Overview

The Joffrey Ballet is a comprehensive history of the quintessential American dance troupe and a textured portrait of Robert Joffrey, the creative maverick who led and inspired it. Broadly researched,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684197243
• ISBN13: 9780684197241
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

An engrossing history of a most important American dance co.

A fascinating, incredibly well-researched history of the Joffrey Ballet -- and its place in American dance. I myself had worked as an intern backstage there when I was younger, and I must say it really captured the company's spirit and the personalities of the major players, such as Mr. Joffrey and Gerald Arpino. Answalt has a knack for presenting the complexities of running a dance company in the US and for fairly examining the disputes between artists and board members that nearly destroyed the Joffrey. If I have any quibble at all, and it is small, it is that from time to time certain events are a little rushed and merit more detail. But that's a small problem, indeed.