Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet
7 best books like Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Jenifer Ringer): Bunheads, All-of-a-Kind Family, A Girl of the Limberlost, Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet, Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal, The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet, Classical Ballet Technique
| Author | Sophie Flack |
| ISBN | 0316126535 |
As a dancer with the ultra-prestigious Manhattan Ballet Company, nineteen-year-old Hannah Ward juggles intense rehearsals, dazzling performances and complicated backstage relationships. Up until now, Hannah has happily devoted her entire life to ballet.
But when she meets a handsome...
| Author | Sydney Taylor |
| ISBN | 0385732953 |
It's the turn of the century in New York's Lower East Side and a sense of adventure and excitement abounds for five young sisters - Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie. Follow along as they search for hidden buttons while dusting Mama's front parlor, or explore the basement warehouse of Papa's peddler's...
| Author | Gene Stratton-Porter |
| ISBN | 1576469115 |
Set amid Indiana's vast Limberlost Swamp, this treasured children's classic mixes astute observations on nature with the struggles of growing up in the early 20th century. Harassed by her mother and scorned by her peers, Elnora Comstock finds solace in natural beauty along with friendship, independence,...
| Author | Jennifer Homans |
| ISBN | 1400060605 |
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year
For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching...
| Author | Toni Bentley |
| ISBN | 0813027055 |
An irresistible inside look at one of the world's great dance companies, Winter Season is also a sensitive, intimate, and almost painfully honest account of the emotional and intellectual development of a young woman dedicated to one of the most demanding of all the arts.
Bentley's association...
| Author | Eliza Gaynor Minden |
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...
| Author | Gretchen Ward Warren |
| ISBN | 0813009456 |
"Classical Ballet Technique is an invaluable guide for students, teachers, and ballet lovers. It not only covers the broad spectrum of ballet vocabulary but also gives sound, practical advice to aspiring dancers. The clarity of the writing, in a field notorious for its opaqueness, is in itself a major...
