The international bestselling memoir of a world-renowned artist''s defection from China to America. From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao''s cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural exchange, only to fall in love with America-and with an American woman. Two years later, through a series of events worthy of the most exciting cloak-and-dagger fiction, he defected to the United States, where he quickly became known as one of the greatest ballet dancers in the world. This is his story, told in his own inimitable voice.
Robert GreskovicThe first comprehensive handbook on how to watch & appreciate the ballet. Assists the beginning learner while offering enough insight to interest those with a more advanced background. Topics: a thorough & international history of the ballet; a look at the dancers & their training & physiology; examines the narrative vs. the non-narrative ballet. Lists of recommended reading material & video recordings. Glossary of dance terms. Contains a complete analysis of 16 important & popular ballets ranging from the classical Swan Lake & The Sleeping Beauty to the romantic Romeo & Juliet to the modern efforts of Twyla Tharp in Push Comes to Shove.
Instinctive, spontanée, la danse ne connaît d''autres lois que celles de l''inspiration. C''est le geste de l''enfant, du prisonnier libéré, de la ménade, du fou de Dieu. Le ballet, lui, ne date que
