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Article: Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet. (Book & Video Gift-Picks For The Holidays).(Review)(Brief Article)
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- Dance Magazine
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- December 1, 2001
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Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet, edited by Lynn Garafola and Eric Foner. New York: Columbia University Press. 2000. Paper edition. 256 pages. $24.95. ISBN: 0-231-11547-4. Also available in cloth: $52.50. ISBN: 0-231115-46-6.
This lovely book, slightly oversized and beautifully designed, is filled with intriguing essays about New York City Ballet's history and its relationship to New York and the dance world. Here you'll find ruminations on NYCB and modern dance; on NYCB and New York intellectuals; on photographer George Platt Lynes's fetishistic, ...