“BALLET - is that something you eat?"
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In every sense different from all the previous, extraordinary, unusual, intriguing and exciting book by an author, a ballerina, Gabriela Teglaši Velimirović, BALLET –is that something you eat?  was published by the Serbian National Theatre. 

The book is written in a fluent language and it is unique in its content. Many ballet and theatre concepts are described in a way accessible to everyone. It tells about one profession, about ballerinas, performances, premieres, jitters, talents, music, ballet shoes, blisters, dieting, injuries, rewards and vanity, about the Serbian National Theatre, about Novi Sad...
It is the crown of the thirty-year-long prolific work of a ballerina in the Serbian National Theatre.
The official presentation of the book was held on the Big Stage of the Serbian national Theatre in Novi Sad, in front of 7 hunderd people, on St. Valentine’s Day, Tuesday, 14th February 2006, at 7 p.m.

It was said about the book:

‘’… however, all the time I know I am writing about Gabriela Teglaši Velimirović, a ballerina from Novi Sad and director of the Ballet there for some time, in fact, about what I have experienced and felt while reading her book.
Indeed, anyone reading this book will see and realise that Gabriela is a working and artistic phenomenon, boundless in its diffusion, with energy that could be named after her. She does not know obstacles or the impossible. Even if she has not accomplished something, it is simply because it did not occur to her, not because she could not do it...“

                                                                                    Prof Slobodan Turlakov PhD

 “BALLET-is that something you eat? is a book aimed against established prejudices about ballet (hence its subtitle). It is unique and written by an author who was both on and behind the stage, a person whose life is ballet.
… It is aimed at everybody. At us, who for sure at least once in our lives had a wish to dance on the tip of our toes; at those who, while watching a ballet performance, imagine ballerinas as some filigree dolls on souvenir gondolas or those in musical boxes; at girls who start the way of ballet and do not have the slightest idea of the things that await them; at parents for whom ballet is the right thing for their princesses, and at many others who would like to have fun but also to learn something – regardless of how much this sounds as an expression.
Anyway, after reading the book nobody will confuse the terms “ballet shoe” and “toe shoe” any more, or, God forbid, call a ballerina a ballet shoe or a sportswoman, or think that doing the splits is the highest achievement of an eminent ballerina.” 

                                                                                                Nevena Varnica Nenin