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Dynamite Cover Letters: and Other Great Job Search Letters

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Having been a very young part of Andre Eglevskys' world (my mother, and I when I was old enough, took class daily with his teacher Maria Nevelska..."spelled "Nevelskaya" before coming to America) at Carnegie hall where he came frequently for class. This book brings back with clarity the attitudes, the "Feel" of the times, the dedication and love for the art of ballet, not only in the person of Nicolas Legat but of every person lovingly and sometimes humorously described. The sketches and caricatures are priceless...and so accurate! The classes described at the end are very helpful esp. to a teacher, advanced student, or ballet historian. The section on "the secret of the pirouette"you will want to try, it was the way I was taught and it works perfectly, and the section on Class Music is very in-depth and wonderful. Artistry at this level needs to once again be our dedication to the many facets of ballet...not just performance, but a life! Worth every penny!

This book promised to explain how to write a good cover letter instead of just giving examples, but the explanations were simplistic and very repetitive. The examples were ok, and I think it did have some good points, but overall too simplistic to be worth buying. I got basically the same information on cover letters out of the one chapter on cover letters in Job Hunting for Dummies. However to be fair this book did have info on approach and thank you letters which I had not heard yet.