My First Ballet

My First Ballet
Author: Christelle Galloux
Publisher: Auzou
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2017-10
Genre: Ballet
ISBN: 9782733852453

Discover 8 of the world's greatest ballets!

My First Ballet Book

My First Ballet Book
Author: Kate Castle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-08-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0753479419

From barres and ballet shoes to plies and performances—a step-by-step introduction to the magic of ballet

My First Ballet Class

My First Ballet Class
Author: Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2016-12-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1481479350

Text and photographs illustrate ballet movements.

DK Readers: My First Ballet Recital

DK Readers: My First Ballet Recital
Author: Amy Junor
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1465405496

The DK Reader My First Ballet Recital is the story of a girl's preparation for her first ballet performance, where she and her classmates can show off all they've learned! 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!

The Ballet Companion

The Ballet Companion
Author: Eliza Gaynor Minden
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1416595716

A New Classic for Today's Dancer The Ballet Companion is a fresh, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date reference book for the dancer. With 150 stunning photographs of ballet stars Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, this elegant volume brims with everything today's dance student needs, including: Practical advice for getting started, such as selecting a school, making the most of class, and studio etiquette Explanations of ballet fundamentals and major training systems An illustrated guide through ballet class -- warm-up, barre, and center floor Guidelines for safe, healthy dancing through a sensible diet, injury prevention, and cross-training with yoga and Pilates Descriptions of must-see ballets and glossaries of dance, music, and theater terms Along the way you'll find technique secrets from stars of American Ballet Theatre, lavishly illustrated sidebars on ballet history, and tips on everything from styling a ballet bun to stage makeup to performing the perfect pirouette. Whether a budding ballerina, serious student, or adult returning to ballet, dancers will find a lively mix of ballet's time-honored traditions and essential new information.

The Ballet Lover's Companion

The Ballet Lover's Companion
Author: Zoë Anderson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0300154283

Each chapter introduces a period of ballet history and provides an overview of innovations and advancement in the art form. In the individual entries that follow, Anderson includes essential facts about each ballet's themes, plot, composers, choreographers, dance style, and music. The author also addresses the circumstances of each ballet's creation and its effect in the theater, and she recounts anecdotes that illuminate performance history and reception.

Ballet Matters

Ballet Matters
Author: Jennifer Fisher
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018-11-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476634688

Part memoir, part dance history and ethnography, this critical study explores ballet's power to inspire and to embody ideas about politics, race, women's agency, and spiritual experience. The author knows that dance relates to life in powerful individual and communal ways, reflecting culture and embodying new ideas. Although ballet can appear (and sometimes is) elite and exclusionary, it also has revolutionary potential.

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina
Author: Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137512350

Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries.