Mindy Aloff, a leading dance critic who has written for The Nation, The New Republic, and The New Yorker, has brought together here a marvelous book of stories by and about dancers--entertaining and informative anecdotes that capture the boundless variety and richness of dance as an art, a tradition, a profession, a pastime, an obsession, a reality, and, for the dancer, an ideal.为《国家》、《新共和国》和《纽约客》撰稿的著名舞蹈评论家明迪·阿洛夫（Mindy Aloff）在这里汇集了一本关于舞者的精彩故事集——娱乐性和信息性的轶事，捕捉了舞蹈作为一门艺术、一种传统、一种职业、一种消遣、一种痴迷的无限多样性和丰富性，对舞者来说，这是一个现实，也是一个理想。