Tis the season for all things ballet! Black Swan with Natalie Portman is receiving Oscar buzz, Apollo’s Angels is receiving rave reviews with stars from both Kirkus & Booklist, and this resource for ballet vocabulary from the American Ballet Theatre library is very useful!
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“It has never been done before, what Jennifer Homans has done in Apollo’s Angels. She has written the only truly definitive history of the most impossibly fantastic art form, ballet….Homans accomplishment is akin to setting the most delicate and beautiful of all the imperial Faberge eggs into a fissure high on Mount Rushmore and tracking its unlikely survival…Inspired…The story of Balanchine has been told before, and at greater lengths, but never better…An eloquent and lasting elegy to an unlasting art.”
—COVER REVIEW, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW