Most intriguing to passionate young lovers of dance will be the exploration of a day in the life of a professional ballet dancer, images of beloved performers such as Margot Fonteyn, Darcey Bussell, and Carlos Acosta, detailed close-ups of costumes, and photos from iconic performances of The Royal Ballet. More than 160 images througho ut.
Book Title: Sheba Lee American Girl
Author: Teresa Cotsirilos
Illustrator: Laura Tallardy
Description: In the dance studio, Sheba Lee is outstanding. Everywhere else, she just stands out.
Book Title: Beginning Ballet
Author: Celia Sparger
Description: New York Theatre Arts Books, Contents is beginning ballet, plie, standing, arabesque, feet and arms.
Book Title: George Balanchine The Ballet Maker
Author: Robert Gottlieve
Description: Written by the gifted author, editor, and dance critic Robert Gottlieb, George Balanchine describes the life and art of the celebrated, revolutionary ballet choreographer. Here is a necessary and singular look at the life of one of the great figures of the 20th Century: the dynamic Balanchine, founder of The New York City Ballet, collaborator of Stravinsky, and inspiration to countless fans over the course of his long and storied career. George Balanchine is another engaging entry in the HarperCollins’ “Eminent Lives” series of biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures
Book Title: Leaping at Shadows, The Dario Quincy Academy of Dance #1
Author: Megan Atwood
Description: Madeleine's the newest arrival at the famed Dario Quincy Academy of Dance. She's worked hard to gain admission, and she's determined not to lose her scholarship. That means not asking too many questions when her antique necklace goes missing, and certainly not breaking curfew. So how does she find herself exploring the creepy tunnels that run underneath the school?
As if rivals at dance practice weren't bad enough, Madeleine begins to suspect that there's an ancient evil on the academy grounds. And when Madeleine and her rivals join together, sneaking out at night to explore the school's depths, the evil might just follow them back upstairs.
Book Title: Rainbow magic The Dance Fairies Bethany the Ballet Fairy
Author: Daisy Meadows
Description: Can Rachel and Kirsty help the Dance Fairies get their grooves back?The Dance Fairies' magic ribbons are missing! Without them, all kinds of dances are getting off on the wrong foot. Everyone is miserable, except for Jack Frost and his goblins. They have the ribbons . . . and it's up to Rachel and Kirsty to get them back!Beautiful ballets everywhere are turning into a total mess. Can Bethany the Ballet Fairy track down her ribbon? Or will the goblins dance away with it?Find the magic ribbon in each book, and help keep the Dance Fairies on their toes!Book Details:Format: PaperbackPublication Date: 5/1/2009Pages: 80Reading Level: Age 7 and Up
Book Title: The Dario Quincy Academy of Dance, The Cursed Ballet
Author: Megan Atwood
Description: Every time the Dario Quincy Academy has performed Giselle, the ballet's lead dancer has died. That's what the rumors say, anyway. But Ophelia doesn't believe in all that. She's determined to win the lead and beat the so-called curse.
As Ophelia begins sneaking out at night to practice Giselle's moves, she meets a mysterious boy hiding in the shadows. He's got great moves, and his looks aren't bad either. After a series of secret meetings, Ophelia starts to feel drained of her strength. She even blacks out during dance class. Is she just pushing herself too hard? Or are the boy and the curse connected?
Book Title: Private View Inside Baryshnikov’s American Ballet Theatre
Author: John Fraser
Photographs by: Eve Arnold
Description: Profiles the glamorous yet driven world of the American Ballet Theater and the style and influence of its charismatic and risk-taking artistic director, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and presents a photographic account of the performers
Book Title: Lili at Ballet
Author: Rachel Isadora
Description: Lili loves to dance. She gets dressed in her leotard, tights, and ballet slippers and begins her class. Along with Lili we learn the five dance positions and see some of the roles she may dance when she is older. For boys and girls who want to know about ballet, this is a perfect introduction!
Book Title: The Illustrated Book of Ballet Stories
Author: Barbara Newman
Illustrator: Gill Tomblin
Description: The perfect gift for aspiring ballerinas, "The Illustrated Book of Ballet Stories" features "The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle", and "Coppelia", beautifully illustrated and enhanced with choreographic and historical information. The book/CD package features the musical highlights of each ballet. Full color
Book Title: The Colorful World of Ballet
Author: Clement Crisp and Edward Thorpe
Illustrator: Maryon Lane, featuring an illustrated guide to classical ballet steps
Description: Hardcover with pictorial of ballet couple on front board. Authors, Clement Crisp and Edward Thorpe. Octopus Books Limited, publishers. 1977 Edition. (ISBN0904230392) Text - clean and tight. Dust Jacket - has a crease on inside front top - otherwise very good. Illustrated with color photographs. Book features outstanding achievements of choreography, history of ballet. Total 96 pages. Beautiful ballet book.
Book Title: Breaking Pointe A Ballet Novel
Author: Miriam Wenger-Landis
Description: The people, the excitement, and the beauty of dancers were the story of my life...."
When eighteen-year-old dancer Anna Linado began her professional ballet career with the prestigious Los Angeles Ballet Theatre, she thought all of her dreams had come true. Company life offered glamorous colleagues, exhilarating performances, and the chance to become a prima ballerina.
Then she finds an older dancer's diary hidden in her theater case, and the contents unravel her preconceptions about life in the company.
Just as Anna reaches the cusp of stardom and the beginning of a promising love affair, the realities of the ballet world will change her life forever.
Book Title: The Ballerina Princess
Author: Jan Peck, edited Dr. Sam Ed Brown
Illustrator: Lyle Miller
Description: Ballet story about Tiffany Moore
Book Title: Stolen Luck The Dario Quincy Academy of Dance
Author: Megan Atwood
Description: Kayley's had a run of bad luck. She'd been struggling at dance practice for a while, and then her instructor decided to give Kayley's next role to another girl. Even so, Kayley isn't ready to bow out. She has a plan.
The old ballet shoes on display at Dario Quincy Academy have a legend behind them. They're supposed to give anyone who owns them good fortune. But when Kayley steals the vintage slippers, she doesn't just turn her dancing around. She starts to see her friends get hurt. Will she return the shoes before something truly tragic strikes the academy? Or is it already too late?
Book Title: An Elementary Treatise Upon The Theory and Practice of The Art of Dancing
Author: Carlo Blasis, Translated by MAry Stewart Evans
Description: The first practical treatise on the art and technique of ballet.
Book Title: The Nutcracker
Author: Retold by Gaby Goldsack
Illustrator: Caroline Pedler
Description: One cold and frosty Christmas Eve night, the Stahlbaum house shone festive and bright. Twinkling candies lit up the tree as guests arrived for the Stahlbaums’ party.
Book Title: Emily’s Dance Class
Author: Claire Masurel
Illustrator: Susan Calitri
Description: Today is Emily’s first dance class! Come along with her as she leaps, spins, and hops her way through the lesson.
Book Title: Prancine the Unicorn Helps the Littlest Ballerina
Author: Ryan Kinkaid
Illustrator: Dave Titus
Description: The unicorn who believes everyone has a little magic inside
Book Title: Children’s Ballet Dictionary An illustrated Guide
Author: Judy John-Baptiste
Description: This ballet terminology book for kids is a great resource for all children taking ballet grades. This ballet dictionary for children is also suited to those who need a basic book to learn ballet step by step and have no ballet experience. It contains most of the widely used ballet terms in ballet classes and exams . This illustrated ballet dictionary for kids comes with detailed ballet poses in full colour to help learn ballet step by step. The Children's Ballet Dictionary An Illustrated Guide is a helpful resource for those who have a general interest in ballet and will help to understand and learn ballet terms. The book is also a suitable ballet dictionary for teens.This ballet dictionary for children is the ideal gift for a ballet pupil. It is a great ballet dictionary with pictures and will help pupils excel in their exams
Book Title: Busy Ballet School
Author: Emily Sollinger
Illustrator: Stacey Lamb
Description: It's the first day of ballet school and these little dancers can't wait to get started. From packing their dance bags to leaping and spinning across the floor, they find that ballet school is all about having fun. The book comes with 20 ballet-themed glitter tattoos -- including ballet slippers, ribbons, bows, and stars.
Book Title: My First Ballet Class
Author: Edwine Riddell
Description: Katy longs to be a dancer. Here she is - ballet shoes, leotard and all, ready to skip, point her toes, clap to music and curtsey, loving every minute of her first ballet class
Book Title: Emily’s Ballet Recital
Author: Heather Howell
Illustrator: Giacomo De Chiara
Description: Emily's Ballet Recital is about a little girl who believes that she has found a pair of magical ballet shoes. When Emily is preparing for her first recital she loses one of her shoes and feels like she can't dance without them. With help from her teacher and family, Emily discovers what she is really made of.
Book Title: Royal Academy of Dancing Step by Step,
Ebury Press London
Illustrator:Description: An illustrated guide to the official ballet syllabus.
Book Title: Miss Lina’s Ballerinas and the Prince
Author: Grace Maccarone
Illustrator: Christine Davenier
Description: Miss Lina's ballerinas have all learned how to dance as a group. But now Miss Lina has a new surprise for them - a boy will be joining their class and performing in their end-of-year show. The girls have grand visions of dancing their first pas de deux with a prince. But when he finds himself surrounded by so much pink and so many girls, he turns quite shy, and dances his way out the door!
Book Title: Starting Ballet Usborne First Skills
Author: Helen Edom and Nicola Katrak, Nicola Katrak is artist in education with the Birmingham Royal Ballet
Illustrator: Norman Young
Designed by: Maria Wheatley
Description: Starting ballet is an exciting yet practical guide for young dancers.
Book Title: The Magical World of Ballet
Author: Kirsten Hall
Illustrator: Anne Kennedy
Description: Story of ballet Madeline and Annalise
Book Title: Peeping Beauty
Author: Mary Jane Auch
Illustrator: Mary Jane Auch
Description: Poulette the hen wants to be a ballerina. She practices and practices in the chicken yard while the other hens scratch and peck in the yard and the garden. A crafty fox comes a-long calling himself a talent scout for a new production called Peeping Beauty. He's looking for dancers and flatters Poulette until she agrees to dance in the new production. But will she become a ballerina star or the dinner?
Book Title: My Mama Had a Dancing Heart
Author: Libba Moore Gray
Illustrator: Raul Colon
Description: Gray's (Small Green Snake) narrator shares a melodic remembrance of her mother, who welcomed each season with boundless enthusiasm-and bade her daughter to do the same: ""Bless the world/ it feels like/ a tip-tapping/ song-singing/ finger-snapping/ kind of day. / Let's celebrate."" The two danced barefoot in the spring rain, ran through the summer surf with balloons and kites tied to their wrists, performed a ""leaf-kicking/ leg-lifting/ hand-clapping/ hello autumn ballet,"" and lay on the ground to make snow angels in winter. Shifting to the present tense, the girl-now a ballerina-notes how these memories serve as inspiration as she leaps across the stage. Though her imagery tends toward the precious, Gray has crafted a genuinely affectionate, personal tribute to someone who embraced life wholeheartedly. Colon (Always My Dad) contributes sophisticated, inventively textured art, rendered in an intriguing combination of watercolor washes, etching, and colored and litho pencils. The pictures gracefully convey the chronic motion described in Gray's text; their muted, earth-toned colors lend a nostalgic feel. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
Book Title: I want to be a Ballerina
Description: Igloo - Put on your tutu and your tiara, twirl your ribbon wand and pirouette! Become the perfect Ballerina!
Book Title: Ballet Kitty
Author: Bernette Ford and Sam Williams
Description: Encore! Young dance fans will clap and cheer as the enormously popular star of Ballet Kitty returns for a repeat performance. And this time, she’s embarking on a brand new adventure: her very first real ballet class.
Dressed in their prettiest slippers and leotards, Kitty and her friend Princess Pussycat are all prepared to do perfect pliés and glide gracefully across the floor. Their pal Ginger Tom isn’t so sure about ballet, though; he’s wearing sneakers and shorts and grumpily saying, “I don’t want to go!” But by the end of class everyone’s learned that even without the right costume a dancer can deserve a big round of applause.
Bernette Ford and Sam Williams have created a charming, lighthearted story that will appeal to any ballet-loving child—and provide young ballerinas and danseurs with an introduction to dance class, too.
Book Title: Ballerina A step-by-step guide to ballet
Author: Jane Hackett
Description: Aspiring ballerinas, would you care to dance? This beautiful book and DVD is the perfect partner, containing everything you need to learn and improve your steps.
Ballerina showcases stunning step-by-step photography taken at the English National Ballet School, alongside clear, concise text written by Jane Hackett, Director of the School. Whatever your age, you can begin with the basics including what to wear, how to warm up, and how to build strength. Then you can move in the right direction with first positions and barre work before progressing to en pointe and pirouettes. You’ll learn how to take ballet from the class to the stage and even choreograph your own dance routine.
Practice is the key to becoming a brilliant ballerina, so use this helpful guide to repeat the steps shown and perfect your performance. Watch the DVD included to see many of the same steps in action, as well as two complete dances, so you can see for yourself and copy the professionals.
This practical introduction to the world of ballet encourages young ballerinas to learn this artistic style of dance in an easy, expressive, and enjoyable way.
Book Title: The Dario Quincy Academy of Dance # 4 Twin Dangers
Author: Megan Atwook
Description: Emma knows that Sophie is dying for the chance to "dance a pas de deux"with her big crush, Trey. Twin sisters know everything about each other. So when Emma secretly hooks up with Trey herself, Sophie feels twice as betrayed.
While Sophie might be upset, she's not angry enough to send her sister death threats. Even so, when menacing notes reach Emma, Sophie's the top suspect. Will Sophie clear her name and save her twin? Or will one of the Dario Quincy Academy's dark secrets destroy them both
Book Title: The Nutcracker Ballet
Author: Retold by Deborah Hautzig
Illustrator: Carolyn Ewing
Description: Step to reading with the nutcracker ballet, If you like the famous ballet, you will like reading the exciting story of it! Here is Marie’s Christmas adventure with brave little Nutcracker, the horrible King of Mice, who has seven crowns on his seven heads, the beautiful Sugar Plum Fairy, funny Mother Ginger, and all the dancers in the Land of Sweets.
Book Title: Want to be a Ballerina
Author: Annabel Blackledge
Description: Packed with full-color photographs, lively illustrations, and engaging, age-appropriate stories to introduce young children to a life-long love of reading. These amazing stories are guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills. Perfect for reading together!
Book Title: Ballerina Princess Disney Step 2
Author: Melissa Lagonegro
Illustrator: Niall Harding
Description: Tutus and toe-shoes—what could be more fun? A Princess wearing them—of course! For the first time ever, the Disney Princesses become ballerinas. Cinderella, Belle, Snow White, and others will dance and spin themselves into the hearts of Princess fans in this sweet Step 2 reader.
Book Title: Baseball Ballerina
Author: Kathryn Cristaldi
Illustrator: Abby Carter
Description: Author: Kathryn Cristaldi
Illustrator: Abby Carter
Book Title: Dancing Dinos go to School
Author: Sally Lucas
Illustrator: Margeaux Lucas
Description: The dancing dinos are back, and this time they are taking over the classroom in this fun, rhyming Step 1 reader that is perfect for back to school
Book Title: All Tutus Should be Pink
Author: Sheri Brownrigg
Illustrator: Meredith Johnson
Description: Level 2 reader
Book Title: The Silver Slippers
Author: Elizabeth Koda Callan
Description: With over 4.1 million copies in print, Elizabeth Koda-Callan's Magic Charm Books is the little series that could. Now, The Silver Slippers takes a dramatic new turn with a fresh redesign featuring a new cover and an irresistible 5" x 6 1³2" trim size--a smaller book for smaller hands, and the perfect stocking stuffer. The look is contemporary, yet as classic as the story inside, with its ageless message of "Good things happen when you believe in yourself." And, of course, nestled inside the cover is a charm on a matching gold or silver chain.
Book Title: Who is Maria Tallchief?
Author: Catherine Gourley
Illustrator: Val Paul Taylor
Description: ABOUT WHO WAS MARIA TALLCHIEF?
A ballet dancer who began her career by dancing at county fairs and rodeosA Native American girl who fell in love with dance while attending her first powwowThe United States’ first prima ballerina Born in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. With the support of her family and world-renowned choreographer George Balanchine, she rose to the top of her art form to become America’s first prima ballerina. Black-and-white illustrations provide visual sidebars to the history of ballet while taking readers through the life of this amazing dancer.
Book Title: Codename: Dancer A Dani Spevak Mystery
Author: Amanda Brice
Description: Aspiring ballerina Dani Spevak is thrilled when hit TV show Teen Celebrity Dance Off comes to the campus of her performing arts boarding school. She trades the barre for the ballroom and gets set to cha-cha-cha to stardom with Hollywood wonderboy Nick Galliano. At first their partnership is awkward, because Dani is in awe of her longtime teen idol crush. But soon their chemistry is heating up the dance floor and the attraction moves into real life. Could he actually like her? Her excitement is short-lived, because someone wants her off the show. Bombs, poisoning, arson… Will Dani’s 15 minutes of fame be over before she reaches age 15? Dani and her friends are suddenly at the center of some serious sabotage. And if she doesn’t find out who is behind it, her next pirouette could be her last. It's like "Nancy Drew in toe shoes" in this light-hearted tween mystery, a finalist for Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart® Award for Best Young Adult Romance. What they’re saying: “It reminded me so much of my childhood, and I have no doubt this would have been my favorite series. Young girls are in for a treat with Daniela Spevak pirouetting through mystery, mayhem and maybe a little romance. It's Nancy Drew meets Dancing with the Stars! What could be better?” - Broadway actress/dancer Cara Cooper (Jersey Boys) “Fans of Pretty Little Liars and Ally Carter’s Gallagher Girls will love CODENAME: DANCER. Sparks fly, tutus twirl, and a clever mystery unravels in what is sure to become a favorite among teens and tweens everywhere. Amanda Brice’s debut is a must read for every girl who ever danced - or ever wanted to!” - NY Times Bestselling Author Gemma Halliday “Amanda Brice's debut novel has something that will appeal to everyone, especially ballet enthusiasts, mystery lovers and fans of reality TV competitions. Even if you don't know a thing about dance, you'll be easily drawn into this quick-paced story with authentic characters and big stakes. I adored Dani and found myself rooting for this spunky heroine. Can't wait for the sequel!” - Rhonda Stapleton, author of STRUCK “CODENAME: DANCER is a mystery-filled romance that will twirl its way into your heart. Dani is a heroine every girl (and woman) will root for. This is a stand-out debut novel for Amanda Brice!” - Melissa Francis, author of BITE ME! “A perfect example of YA done right.” - I'd So Rather Be Reading review blog
Book Title: Pointe of No Return A Dani Spevak Mystery
Author: Amanda Brice
Description: It's the most wonderful time of the year... Aspiring ballerina Dani Spevak's visions of sugar plums are dashed when she's assigned to understudy her nemesis, Hadley Taylor, in The Nutcracker. Pretty, popular, and rich, that girl has all the luck. Or so she thought. When Hadley mysteriously disappears with opening night just around the corner, Dani can't sit idly by, even if it means losing the part. Now she's running all over Phoenix in a race against the clock. From reality TV trophy wives to sleazy real estate developers to a possible drug ring, the cast of suspects begins to add up. Will she find Hadley before the curtain rises? Book 2 in the Dani Spevak Mystery Series! Praise for Amanda Brice and the Dani Spevak Mystery Series: "From the authentic atmosphere of a ballet boarding school to the recognizable humor and angst of teenage girls, POINTE OF NO RETURN hits all the right notes and kept me turning the pages." - Former professional ballerina Miriam Landis-Wenger, author of BREAKING POINTE and GIRL IN MOTION "References that include everything from Snooki to Chewbacca will have you laughing out loud." - Romantic Times on CODENAME: DANCER "A perfect example of YA done right." - I'd So Rather Be Reading on CODENAME: DANCER "It's Nancy Drew meets Dancing with the Stars! What could be better?" - Broadway actress/dancer Cara Cooper on CODENAME: DANCER "Fans of Pretty Little Liars and Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls will love CODENAME: DANCER." - NY Times bestselling author Gemma Halliday "Even if you don't know a thing about dance, you'll be easily drawn into this quick-paced series with authentic characters and big stakes." - Rhonda Stapleton, author of STRUCK "CODENAME: DANCER is a mystery-filled romance that will twirl its way into your heart." - Melissa Francis, author of BITE ME! and LOVE SUCKS! "An excellent read with crisp writing and a compelling story." - Juli Alexander, author of MY LIFE AS THE UGLY STEPSISTER on CODENAME: DANCER "Dani is such a vibrant character that she leaps right off the pages and into your heart." - Cynthia Justlin, author of HER OWN BEST ENEMY
Book Title: A Dictionary of Ballet
Author: Leo Kersley, Janet Sinclair
Illustrator: Peter Revitt
Description: Dance A dictionary of ballet terms
Book Title: The Ballet Quiz Book
Author: James and Constance Camner
Description: With questions from George Balanchine, Fernando Bujones, Patricia Mc Bride, and many other ballet greats.
Book Title: Understand Ballet
Author: Mary Clarke Clement Crisp
Description: Understanding ballet
Book Title: The little Ballerina Basic 2 reading
Author: Sally Grindley
Description: It’s the day of the big performance at Laura’s ballet school. Suddenly disaster strikes! Can Laura help save the show?
Book Title: To the Stars Isabelle, American Girl
Author: Laurence Yep
Description: Isabelle is doing great at the Anna Hart School of the Arts--her dancing idol Jackie Sanchez even invites her to go on tour! Isabelle jumps on board, but she quickly finds that the traveling show has its challenges, not the least of which is bossy Renata who was invited to come, too. When the dance show suddenly starts falling apart, Isabelle tries to help Jackie pull it back together--and begins to learn more about a mentor who encouraged Jackie to dance as a young girl. As Isabelle taps into her talents to try to save the show, she not only discovers who inspired Jackie, but also how she, herself, can inspire those around her.
Book Title: Designs by Isabelle, American Girl
Author: Laurence Yep
Description: As Isabelle rehearses her ballet routine for The Nutcracker, she wonders if she'll ever master her pirouettes, especially with her classmate Renata pointing out her every mistake. She tries focusing on the other parts of the production she enjoys: exploring the costume and props room and helping out with costumes for some of the younger dancers. But when Jade, her big sister who also attends Anna Hart School of the Arts, becomes moody and withdrawn, Isabelle taps into her design skills to try to find a solution for Jade. In the meantime, can Isabelle find the confidence to tune out Renata and perfect her own performance, too?As Isabelle rehearses her ballet routine for The Nutcracker, she wonders if she'll ever master her pirouettes, especially with her classmate Renata pointing out her every mistake. She tries focusing on the other parts of the production she enjoys: exploring the costume and props room and helping out with costumes for some of the younger dancers. But when Jade, her big sister who also attends Anna Hart School of the Arts, becomes moody and withdrawn, Isabelle taps into her design skills to try to find a solution for Jade. In the meantime, can Isabelle find the confidence to tune out Renata and perfect her own performance, too?
Book Title: Isabelle American Girl
Author: Laurence Yep
Description: Isabelle is excited about starting her first year at the Anna Hart School of the Arts! But she can't help comparing herself to her older sister, Jade, who attends the same school and is an amazing ballerina. Isabelle's other classmates are equally talented, and she starts wondering whether she really belongs at her new school. She earns a role in the fall festival, but she struggles during rehearsals. Can Isabelle learn how to focus less on those around her and more on her own dancing? With help from her sister and her friends, Isabelle may discover a unique talent that she can truly call her own.
Book Title: 100 Lessons in Classical Ballet
Author: Vera S. Kostrovirskaya, translated by Oleg Briansky
Description: The complete 8-year curriculum of Leningrad's famed Vaganova Choreographic School, which trained Nureyev, Baryshnikov, and Makarova, including over 100 photographs. A volume which no teacher, scholar, or student of the dance can afford to miss. “A serious, indeed indispensable, textbook.” –Clive Barnes
Book Title: The Borzoi Book of Ballet
Author: Grace Robert
Description: The Borzoi Book of Ballet, Gala Performance, Petrounchka, Swan Lake and The Magic Swan
Book Title: Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet
Author: Gail Grant
Description: "Miss Grant has made more information available in one book than we have ever had before. Teacher's organizations would do well to consider the use of Miss Grant's Technical Manual as an official textbook." — Dance Magazine
Teacher recommended, Gail Grant's Technical Manual has long been one of the most popular and effective ballet reference guides. Completely revised and updated, this third edition is virtually a new work and should be owned by every student, dance teacher, choreographer, and ballet enthusiast — even those who purchased the second edition. Extensive revision, expansion, and the inclusion of more than 300 new terms have added immeasurably to the value of this concise, definitive manual.
Moving from "abstract ballet" and "adage, adagio" to "working leg" and "wrapped position," the book fully describes and defines over 1,100 ballet steps (saul de chat, jeté enveloppé, failli, entrechat six, etc.), movements and poses (arabesque, épaulement, attitude, en arrière, retiré, à terre, dégagé, etc.), and other expressions and concepts. For each, first a phonetic transcription is provided, then a literal translation, and finally an explanation of how the step is performed, the pose captured, or the movement executed, of how the concept fits in with actual ballet dancing, or of the purpose or function of the idea. A pronunciation guide, cross-references to alternate names for similar steps and positions that vary from the Russian to the French or Italian schools, and a bibliography are all invaluable aids.
But the most important supplement is the 15-page pictorial section, drawn by the author, who is both a successful ballet teacher and dancer. Keyed to the dictionary (and vice-versa), these diagrams show clearly the exact foot, leg, arm, and body positions for the proper execution of many of the more common ballet steps and movements. This essential and easy reference is a must for every teacher, aspiring dancer, and ballet class.
Book Title: A Ballerina Prepares
Author: Ludmilla Shollar, Anatole Vilzak, laurencia Klaja
Description: There are fourteen variations from great classical ballets: COPPELIA, THE NUTCRACKER, RAYMONDA, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, SWAN LAKE and SYLVIA notated in the terminology of the French names for the ballet steps which can be easily comprehended by any advanced student of ballet.
Book Title: Dancing on the Whisper of God, A Novel
Author: Jean Giebertson
Description: San Francisco, 1993. Choreographer Calvin Tropp is jerked out of artistic lethargy when he hears a predawn whisper: We are going to make a new dance, and the theme is prayer. Cal is not a religious man and knows nothing about prayer, but his creative fire is reignited. Opening night is sixty-three days away. He knows that its crazy to think he can get the ballet created and ready in that amount of time, especially once he realizes that new music must be commissioned, and the only available, aptly talented composer is the cantankerous Evana Arthur. Shes so hard to work with hes almost glad he has only nine weeks!
The book structure counts down: nine weeks, eight weeks, etc., to opening night. Along with building the ballet and learning about prayer, Cal finally deals with the loss of his wife thirteen years earlier. Three dancers bring the Prayer ballet to life amidst trials of their own; for everyone involved, the new ballet transforms lives and reshapes the world.
Book Title: Balanchine's New Complete Stories of the Great Ballets
Author: George Balanchine, edited by Francis Mason
Description: This is a massive book of ballets. Ballets you didn’t realize were ballets. Ballets you had forgotten about. If you can get your hands on a copy, this is valuable to any ballet dancer, teacher, or balletomane
Book Title: The Dancers Body Book
Author: Allegra Kent with James and Contacne Camner
Description: Ballet dancers have the strongest, most beautiful, probably the most invited bodies in the world.
Book Title: The Anthropology of Dance
Author: Anya Peterson Royce
Description: "Dance is a powerful, frequently adopted symbol of the way people feel about themselves." So concludes the author of this book, a general introduction to the anthropology of dance. Since anthropology has broadened its horizons to include Western, industrialised and urban societies, the study of dance culture may, with equal legitimacy, observe ballet, the Hawaiian hula, the classical tradition of Bharata Natyam, the pigeon wings and polkas of the Californian gold rush miners, and the minuets of colonial Virginia planters. Dance makes its unique contribution to society and culture by virtue of its form and expression; at the same time it is intimately bound up with elements of religion, kinship and social organisation, politics and economics. The fact that dance is inseparable from its means of expression - the human body making patterns in time and space - means that it cannot be divorced from its social and cultural context. The author first explores the various meanings that dance has had over time for different peoples. Next she focuses on the place that dance has occupied in anthropological studies over the past one hundred years. Techniques for studying and recording dance are discussed, including notation systems, field guides, film, and anthropological means of participant-observation. The book then turns to structural and functional analyses, comparing them with reference to their different purposes and capabilities. Part Two presents three perspectives frequently used by anthropologists to view dance: the historical, the comparative and the symbolic. Extended and fascinating case studies based on the author's research illustrate each of these perspectives: American colonial dance, North American Indian urban powwow dancing, and Zapotec dance of the Mexican Isthmus. Part Three discusses two categories of research that will be significant in the future but which have not yet been fully explored. They are creativity and aesthetics, on the one hand, and communication and meaning on the other. The author concludes by pointing to some fruitful directions for future research in dance anthropology.
Book Title: A Dictionary of Modern Ballet
Author: Ma Gadan, Francis Ed, Maillard, Robert Ed, Crichton, Rondald Ed, Clarke
Book Title: Prodigal Son
Author: Edward Villella with Larry Kaplan
Description: A leading advocate for the arts in America and recent recipient of the 1997 National Medal of the Arts, the 1997 Kennedy Center Honors, and the George Abbott Carbonell Award for Achievement, Edward Villella was recently inducted into the State of Florida Artist Hall of Fame. Villella also received the Frances Holleman Breathitt Award for Excellence for his contributions to the arts and to education, the thirty-eighth annual Capezio Dance Award, and Award for Lifetime Achievement, becoming only the fourth dance personality to receive National Endowment for the Arts advisory artistic director of the Miami City Ballet, which has won worldwide acclaim under his direction.
Book Title: Once a Dancer
Author: Allegra Kent
Description:
Autobiography of one of Balanchine's finest ballerinas
"What a witty, evocative writer Ms. Kent is!"--New York Times
"A daffy and unexpectedly poignant autobiography. . . . [Kent] repossesses as a writer the unpredictable charm of her dancing. She is zanily elegant . . . frequently stranded, broke, desperate, abused, or abandoned, yet well served by a fey kind of gumption."--Kirkus Reviews
"In [Balanchine's] garden of unearthly delights, Allegra Kent as the most enchanting bloom of all. . . . Through Kent's own wise and courageous recollections . . . we see her unique spirit and almost see again her glorious dancing."--Vanity Fair
"[Kent's] writing is as varied, lucid, and troubling as her dancing. . . . To ask whether she knows how much she has inadvertently told us is merely to frame one more time the terms of her peculiar mystery."--Wall Street Journal
"As distinctly riveting as she ever was on stage."--Dance Magazine
"Kent, one feels, has never known quite where or who she is. . . . Born Iris Cohen in 1937, she had an early life that was the crazy kind you might find in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor. . . . [She writes,] '[Mr. B.] saw in me the psychological raw materials that could be molded and remolded into images of sensuality--unrealized and restrained, but there, just under the surface. The star inside the sapphire.' This is not only a convincing analysis of a difficult concept, it is beautiful writing."--Washington Post
Book Title: International Dictionary of Ballet, Volume 1: A-K
Author: St. J. St. James Press
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Book Title: International Dictionary of Ballet Volume 2: L-Z
Author: St. J. St. James Press
Description: Ballet has long needed a reference work like this. Hort Koegler's The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet (Oxford Univ. Pr., 1982. rev. ed.) is the most accurate, comprehensive, and affordable guide to the subject, but its entries are necessarily brief. Here, 750 entries written by dance critics, academics, and historians detail artists, ballets