Some pages have some yellowing due to age. Otherwise it is in very good condition. "Essential for the devotee, it is well worth reading by the curious and might even prove a means of conversion for the unbeliever." Financial Times These twelve intimately evocative stories conjure up the complex world of dancers: would-be and could-be dancers, those who dance for pleasure, politics, or religion, those who dance in dreams, those who adamantly refuse to dance, and those who can't dance anymore.