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THE WORDS ARE THOSE of a member of the New York City Ballet, in Joseph H. Mazo's Dance Is A Contact Sport. Amid the current wave of books on dance (the publishing industry is finally beginning to catch up with the box offices) Mazo's book and another recent...
Whatever their problems, the dancers who come to life in the pages of Mazo's book have indisputably "made it." Although Dance As Life is subtitled "A Season With American Ballet Theatre," one of its strengths is its often poignant portrayal of those who couldn't make it, or won...
Despite the subtitle, only slightly more than half the book deals with the daily life of ABT, and this section is actually a more superficial treatment of behind-the-scenes life than Mazo's. Stevens' strength is the concise, graceful way he fleshes out the background of a professional dancer...
There are the obvious physical hardships: the basic problem of forcing the body to learn a whole new language of movement, the constant battle with fatigue, the endless and inevitable series of injuries. But what is perhaps more insidious are the psychological burdens. Since most careers end at forty or...
Why, then, do dancers choose to be dancers? Neither book provides a clear-cut answer. Certainly it is not for the elusive goals of fame or monetary reward. Yet both books offer hints, glimpses of something beyond the regimentation and the sweat and the pain. For while dance is all...