Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet

Author/Contributor(s):	Jacobs, Laura
Publisher:	Basic Books
Date:	05/08/2018
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"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 [this book], dance critic Laura Jacobs makes the foreign familiar, providing [an] ... accessible introduction to the world of classical dance"--