Ballet & Modern Dance

with contributions by leading choreographers, dancers and critics

Octopus Books, 1974 [First Edition], ISBN 0706403223, full colour and black and white photographs throughout, photographic end-papers, full colour title page, hardcover with illustrated cloth cover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, previous owners inscription on front end-paper, tape residue to end-papers, dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing to edges and corners, a little tape residue to wraps (see photographs)

"This book provides a unique commentary and guide to the world of dance as it is today.  Here the distinguished choreographers Rudi van Dantzig and Maurice Bejart describe why and how they create their ballets.  Lincoln Kirstein, Director of the New York City Ballet, has written about the achievements and the aims of this company, while Nadia Nerina tells of her exciting visit to Russia to dance with the Bolshoi Ballet.  There are professional assessments of modern dance in New York, London and Europe, and John Lanchbery of Covent Garden and Australia writes about the work of the conductor.
250 colour and black-and-white photographs illustrated over 25 different companies and many individual stars and artists from the most celebrated to the new young dancers, and create a comprehensive, serious and explanatory record of the important productions of recent years."