Balanchine Basics, From Two Views

by JENNIFER DUNNING
the New York Times

"All in the Dances," Mr. Teachout writes, is for readers who have just seen or are about to see their first Balanchine performance and are curious about the choreographer and his legacy.

Dance fever

by ALAN PETER RYAN
the Chicago Tribune

"The stage was bare, and the dancers' unadorned costumes offered no clue as to who they were or what they were doing... They made no obviously theatrical gestures, exchanged no significant glances, yet I felt sure they were telling some kind of story. Was I missing the point? All at once I understood: the music was the story. . . . Rooted in my seat, eyes wide with astonishment, I asked myself, Why hasn't anybody ever told me about this? And what kind of man made it?"