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If you like Balanchine, you must read Nancy Goldner's . She has the best ear for music and dance musicality of any dance critic writing today.Alastair Macaulay, The book is modest and, at the same time, utterly self-assured. Anyone who cares about Balanchine should buy it immediately.Joan Acocella,A remarkable new book. Immediately takes its place among the half-dozen or so essential books on George Balanchine.Robert Gottlieb in the In this deliciously evocative new volume, Nancy Goldner returns to offer in-depth discussions of twenty more of George Balanchines ballets. As in the critically acclaimed , Goldners focus is not on history or biography but on the dances themselves: the technique, the coordination with music, the storytelling, and the evolution of Balanchines style.Pure joy. Even more exciting and wonderfully imaginative than the authors previous volume, this collection of personal essays about some of George Balanchines most beloved ballets takes a reader through deep levels of Balanchines sensibility. Nancy Goldner illuminates the organization of the works, their construction on the level of dance technique and its coordination with music, andmost marvelousthe spooky and passionate stories embedded within their plotless maneuvers.Mindy Aloff, editor of , author of , was a dance critic for the , the, the , and for twenty five years