Ballet - and Then?
Biographies of Dancers Who No Longer Dance What becomes of ballet dancers when they finally leave the stage, when their last curtain falls? Dancers live their lives in the limelight. They give a lot, if not everything, in the performances. In ballet, profession and calling are united: passion and suffering are often close to each other. For most dancers, their time is up at thirty, thirty-five. They disappear from view. One doesn't hear anything about them anymore; as if they were swallowed up by the earth. |
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Ballet - and then?is published 2006 as a "Book on Demand". It has 271 pages and costs 19.80 Euros. Attention - There are different ways to order this book:
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This is certainly one of the most clever, enlightening, understanding, and sensitive ballet books which has been published in the last few years. [...] One wants this book to be in the hands of every young girl or fellow who dreams of being the next Sylvie Guillem or Rudolf Nureyev. And since they are often still too young to be aware of the consequences of a professional dance career when they start dancing, one wishes that their parents at least take note of what is said by the experienced Stuttgart journalist, who herself was once a dancer. For junior dancers in the initial years of their stage careers, however, this book should be declared required reading, to prevent profound life crises at the unavoidable end of their days on the stage.[...] Discipline is the word which appears most often in this book. Everything else is extremely varied in these biographies which the author has investigated. She has done this in an unusually sensitive manner, carefully examining the various social beginnings and personality structures (and presenting them in such an exciting way, that they read like 27 short literary portraits). [...] Horst Koegler in a review in the German website tanznetz.de 1st Dezember, 2004 |