Veteran dance writer Robert Greskovic's comprehensive handbook on how to watch and appreciate the ballet is now available in this new edition. It includes a complete analysis of sixteen important and popular ballets: from Swan Lake to Twyla Tharp's Push Comes To Shove. Other topics include: -Ballet basics -Ballet history -Dancers and their education -Technique -Videography -Glossary of Terms The result is a book that heightens the accessibility of ballet to everyone. As Mikhail Baryshnikov states in the book's foreword: "All the things that ballet fans talk about at intermission, while newcomers stand there wondering what they mean: those things are here...(Robert Greskovic) has been thinking about ballet --- watching it, reading, writing, and talking about it --- day after day for more than thirty years. He knows it through and through. Now he shares his knowledge."