Documents the life and achievements of the foremost contemporary ballet choreographer, discussing how he left revolutionary Russia in 1924 to join Serge Diaghilev's famous Ballets Russes, established a lifelong collaboration with Stravinsky, founded what would become the New York City Ballet, and ch[...]
"For soundness, for clarity, for succinctness, this manual of basic ballet is the best there is anywhere."
-Edwin Denby, "The Nation
With a precision unparalleled in any other book of its kind, "The Classic Ballet presents a lucid text, and nearly six hundred drawings describe and illustrate[...]