Suki Schorer on Balanchine technique / with Russell Lee ; photographs by Carol Rosegg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schorer, Suki.

Contributor:

Lee, Russell.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballet dancing.

Ballet dancers--Training of.

Ballet dancers.

Balanchine, George.

School of American Ballet.

Physical Description:

xv, 426 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Balanchine technique

Place of Publication:

New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999.

Summary:

A highly detailed book on Balanchine technique, written by one of his former principal dancers, now a leading teacher at the School of American Ballet.

When still a young dancer in the New York City Ballet, Suki Schorer was chosen by Balanchine to lecture, demonstrate, and teach--he recognized in her that rare dancer who not only performs superbly but can also successfully pass along what she knows to others. Now, she commits to paper the fruit of her twenty-four-year collaboration with Balanchine in a close examination of his technique for teachers, scholars, and advanced students of the ballet.

Schorer discusses the crucial work at the barre as well as center work, port de bras, pointework, jumps, partnering, and more. Her recollections of her own tutelage under Balanchine and her brilliant use of scores of his remarks about dancing and dancers lend both authority and intimacy to this extraordinary analysis of Balanchine's legacy to the future of dance.

Profusely illustrated throughout with instructional photographs featuring members of the New York City Ballet, this book will serve as an indispensable testament to Balanchine's ideas on technique and performance.

Contents:

From the Studio to the Stage 19

Barre Work 49

The Upper Body 141

Pointework and Related Releve 225

Jumps 289

Partnering 383.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0679450602

OCLC:

38595493