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Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina

10 best books like Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina (Maria Tallchief): Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet, Looking for Lost Bird: A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots, The Sugarless Plum: A Ballerina's Triumph Over Diabetes, Girl in Motion, Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story, Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal, Ballerina, Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection, Holding On to the Air, Once a Dancer: An Autobiography

Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
AuthorJennifer Homans
ISBN1400060605
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...
Looking for Lost Bird: A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots
AuthorYvette Melanson
ISBN0380795531
This is a fascinating true story of a woman raised white and Jewish who discovers later that she and her twin brother were actually stolen (yes, stolen) from her Navajo parents as babies, ferried across several states and eventually adopted out to two different families. Even before Yvette discovers...
The Sugarless Plum: A Ballerina's Triumph Over Diabetes
AuthorZippora Karz
ISBN0373892039
It started as the perfect story. Zippora Karz was a member of the famed New York City Ballet by the age of eighteen. By twenty she was starring as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, dancing roles created by Jerome Robbins, and traveling the world.

It was the stuff dreams are made of until, at...
Girl in Motion
AuthorMiriam Wenger-Landis
ISBN1451591659
At the School of Ballet New York, the most prestigious ballet school in the country, aspiring ballerina Anna becomes friends with her talented roommate, Hilary, a French exchange student, Marie, a down-to-earth mid-westerner, Jen, and one of the cutest guys in school, Tyler. The competition is intense...
Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story
AuthorOnnie Lee Logan
ISBN0452265568
I purchased this book because it was required for a doula training that I completed. At first I was skeptical that a memoir/oral history would be helpful, but I was pleasantly surprised. In fact, I think I gained more from this book than I did from any of the (excellent) "how-to" type books about labor and...
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal
AuthorToni Bentley
ISBN0813027055
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...
Ballerina
AuthorEdward Stewart
ISBN0440203074
I read this when I was in college as a fun, mindless read. While it's trash, it's good enough trash to read twice. The plot sounds and is melodramatic: two dancers--one poor, one rich--are pitted against one another in a ballet company. There's also a mysterious illness and the obligatory stage mothers...
Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection
AuthorDeirdre Kelly
ISBN1926812662
Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection-- the feminine ideal. But the reality is another story. From the earliest ballerinas in the 17th century, who often led double lives as concubines, through the poverty of the corps de ballet dancers...
Holding On to the Air
AuthorSuzanne Farrell
ISBN0813025931
Suzanne Farrell, world-renowned ballerina, was one of George Balanchine's most celebrated muses and remains a legendary figure in the ballet world. This memoir, first published in 1990 and reissued with a new preface by the author, recounts Farrell's transformation from a young girl in Ohio dreaming...
Once a Dancer: An Autobiography
AuthorAllegra Kent
ISBN0312187505
Allegra Kent joined the New York City Ballet at the age of fifteen and, only two years later, inspired Balanchine's unforgettable The Unanswered Question. Beautiful, sensuous, and mysterious, she quickly became an essential Balanchine dancer-and the story of her personal life is as dramatic as...
Hidden Roots
AuthorJoseph Bruchac
ISBN0439353580
Hidden Roots tells the story of 11-year-old Sonny, a shy boy whose father's sudden rages are becoming more and more frequent. The love of his fragile mother, the support and protection of his Uncle Louis, and an unexpected friendship with a librarian help Sonny gain the confidence to confront hidden...
The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training & Technique
AuthorJanice Barringer
The Pointe Book is the only book to include an extensive explanation of pointe shoe fitting, preparing, and maintenance. Interviews with dancers Larissa Ponomarenko, Paloma Herrera, and Marisa Soltis reveal different personal and highly evolved methods of breaking in and taking care of pointe...
I Was a Dancer
AuthorJacques D'Amboise
ISBN1400042348
“Who am I? I’m a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.”

In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d’Amboise, one of America’s most celebrated classical dancers,...
Nureyev: The Life
AuthorJulie Kavanagh
ISBN0375405135
Rudolf Nureyev had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the stage. With Nureyev: The Life, Julie Kavanagh shows how his intense drive and passion for dance propelled him from a poor, Tatar-peasant...
101 Stories of the Great Ballets: The Scene-by-Scene Stories of the Most Popular Ballets, Old and New
AuthorGeorge Balanchine
ISBN0385033982
This book was obviously written for serious balletomanes and dancers, as some bits will be hard to follow unless you understand dance terminology. As a dancer myself, I find it really useful. You get spare, clean plot paraphrases with a decided lack of the busy pink illustrations so common in books of...
George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker
AuthorRobert Gottlieb
ISBN0060750707
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...
Margot Fonteyn
AuthorMeredith Daneman
ISBN0140165304
Margot Fonteyn - born plain Peggy Hookham - was dreamed into existence by the architects of British ballet: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton and Constant Lambert. Carried to fame on a wave of wartime patriotism, Margot's sense of duty rather than ambition propelled her forward. Yet her gifts were...
I, Maya Plisetskaya
AuthorMaya Plisetskaya
ISBN0300088574
Maya Plisetskaya, one of the world’s foremost dancers, rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet after an early life filled with tragedy and loss. In this spirited memoir, Plisetskaya reflects on her personal and professional odyssey, presenting a unique view of the life of...
Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear: Inside the Land of Ballet
AuthorStephen Manes
In a scuffed-up studio, a veteran dancer transmits the magic of an eighty-year-old ballet to a performer barely past drinking age. In a converted barn, an indomitable teacher creates ballerinas as she has for more than half a century. In a monastic mirrored room, dancers from as near as New Jersey and...
First Love
AuthorAdrienne Sharp
ISBN1573223107
Adam and Sandra are ballet dancers, friends since they were fifteen, and now lovers. Sandra is a dancer in the corps of the New York City Ballet who has just caught George Balanchine’s eye. Adam is an explosively gifted new star who has defected to the rival company, the American Ballet Theatre. They...
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet
AuthorJenifer Ringer
ISBN0670026492
A behind-the-curtains look at the rarefied world of classical ballet from a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet

In her charming and self-effacing voice, Jenifer Ringer covers the highs and lows of what it’s like to make it to the top in the exclusive, competitive ballet world. From...
The Shape of Love
AuthorGelsey Kirkland
ISBN0241130646
A woman I worked for told me that her mother calls this book a "soggy Valentine." The description is not inappropriate.

Still, Kirkland's devotion to art, love, and truth is so pure and genuine that it's hard for me to dismiss it as mere sap. The book is out of print now-- far less sensational than...
Bodies From the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (Awards))
AuthorJames M. Deem
ISBN0618473084
In ancient times, Pompeii was one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire. Its 20,000 inhabitants lived in the shadow of Vesuvius, which they believed was nothing more than a mountain. But Vesuvius was a volcano. And on the morning of August 24, A.D. 79, Vesuvius began to erupt. Within twenty-four hours,...
Summer Vacation from the Black Lagoon
AuthorMike Thaler
ISBN0545072247
Personal Reaction: This book was really funny and kept the reader's attention with its humor. The pictures captivated my attention, although I wish some of them were a little less distracting. I also liked how the book is separated into a lot of short chapters, because the transitional reader may feel...
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