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, fromSwan Laketo Twyla Tharp’sPush Comes To Shove., 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.