Grace Under Pressure: Passing Dance Through Time
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.94 (983 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0879109955 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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For anyone contemplating a life in ballet In Grace Under Pressure: Passing Dance Through Time, ballet expert Barbara Newman (Dance Critic of "Country Life" magazine and a journalist contributor to "Dancing Times"), has compiled remarkably informative interviews with eighteen contemporary illuminaries of the world of dance. This impressive collection of leading dancers and renowned dance instructors ranging from Suki Schorer (School of American Ballet) and Marc Du Bouays (Paris Opera Ballet School) to Yuri Fareyev, Margaret Mercier, and Richard Thomas. Enthusiastically recommen. A magnificent book! Charlotte A. Walker What a magnificent book! Dance critic Barbara Newman's GRACE UNDER PRESSURE is not just for serious dance afficionados, though it will be deeply meaningful to the serious student of dance; with its engaging writing style and its emphasis on "grace under pressure," on the lives and techniques of great dancers who became great dance teachers, this book will draw in almost any reader who picks it up. The opening of the book, with its description of discovering both the scrumptious pies at a small town diner, and the sadness of a small-tow. A JOY TO READ AS A DANCER, TEACHER AND BALLETOMANE, I FOUND THIS BOOK AN ABSOLUTE JOY TO READ. I FOUND MYSELF READING IT AT A SLOWER PACE AS I REACHED THE LAST PAGESI DIDN'T WANT IT TO END. IT GIVES US AN INSIGHT OF WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN THE WORLD OF DANCE IN THIS PAST YEARS AND THE REASONS BEHIND IT. MAKES US THINK ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE TO DO IF WE WANT TO RECOVER THAT SO OFTEN LOST "ARTISTRY" IN THE BEATIFUL WORLD OF DANCE.
(Limelight). Newman is not interested in dance as an aesthetic abstraction, and the people who answered her questions were not speaking theoretically. A critic and writer on dance for well over twenty years, Barbara Newman has gone in search of teachers and coaches, directors, choreographers and stagers former dancers who had turned the focus of their own experience on others to explain the state of ballet today. On the contrary, her speculation and their responses bring an elusive subject down to earth, illuminating a process that reaches back in history and forward to today, though its dreams are of a world no one can imagine.. Among leaders of the dance world the author interviewed were Suki Schorer, Helgi Tomasson, Mark Morris, Violette Verdy and 14 other artists whose work she knew and respected, most of them active outside of New York and London
-- Dance Now, Summer 2004Barbara Newman's Grace under Pressure is an unusually stimulating book. Barbara Newman establishes herself as the Studs Terkel of the dance world. -- Country Life, June 2004reveals some of the old and new complexities that exist in this ever more rapidly changing world. -- Asashi Evening News (Tokyo)an inspired account of ballet and modern dance's twentieth-century journey by a seasoned critic with breathtaking knowledge -- The Royal Academy of Dance Gazette (London), Fall 2004interviews with a differencethese compelling conversations assume the character of what the French call testaments. -- Koeglerjournal, January 2005This boo
Barbara Newman is Professor of English and Religion at Northwestern University. . Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine and editor and translator of Hildegard of Bingen's Symphonia. She is author of Sister of Wisdom: St