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Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet

10 best books like Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Gail Grant): Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet, The Melting Season, Dancing on the Inside, Breaking Pointe: A Ballet Novel, Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal, White Swan, Black Swan, Holding On to the Air, A Very Young Dancer, Once a Dancer: An Autobiography, The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training & Technique

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...
The Melting Season
AuthorCeleste Conway
ISBN0385733399
Giselle is a cultured ballet student, the daughter of the famous ballerina Marina Parke-Vanova and the late dance historian Grigori Vanov. On her first-ever trip to "Westchest-ah", as her mother's deranged boyfriend Blitz calls it, she meets the most beautiful boy she's ever seen. Will introduces...
Dancing on the Inside
AuthorGlen C. Strathy
ISBN1462018718
Ever since her grandparents gave her a DVD of "Swan Lake," twelve-year old Jenny Spark has wanted to be a dancer. But on her first day of ballet class, she suffers a panic attack and makes a horrifying discovery. She's terrified of dancing in front of the other kids, and as for actually performing for an...
Breaking Pointe: A Ballet Novel
AuthorMiriam Wenger-Landis
"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...
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...
White Swan, Black Swan
AuthorAdrienne Sharp
“Adrienne Sharp writes with breathtaking perception about the needs and desires of the body, its resilience and its vulnerabilities. Art, passion, history intersect with burning immediacy in this beautifully crafted book.”
–CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI
Author of The Mistress...
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...
A Very Young Dancer
AuthorJill Krementz
ISBN0394408853
Growing up, my sister and I took turns checking out this and A VERY YOUNG GYMNAST from the library. My mom eventually bought us A VERY YOUNG SKATER and A VERY YOUNG HORSEBACK RIDER, but DANCER and GYMNAST are still the best.
In the mid-1970s, Krementz spent months following 10-year-old Stephanie...
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...
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...
Dancing on My Grave
AuthorGelsey Kirkland
Update: Lord, I'd forgotten how difficult it is to read this book. Gelsey's pain is palpable. What is, perhaps, even more distressing is reading the response here on goodreads. Gelsey never intended to promote anorexia, drug addiction, or promiscuity. She doesn't deserve such contempt from readers....
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...
The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet
AuthorEliza 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...
I Dreamed I Was a Ballerina
AuthorAnna Pavlova
ISBN0689846762
Every girl remembers her first trip to the ballet: the anticipation beforehand, the orchestra's first notes, the ethereal beauty of the ballerinas. This is a tale of one such girl who was caught up in ballet's mesmerizing spell and became one of the greatest ballerinas of all time.In a story drawn from...
Classical Ballet Technique
AuthorGretchen Ward Warren
ISBN0813009456
"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...
Blood Memory
AuthorMartha Graham
ISBN0333574419
this should be required reading for anyone who is seriously studying dance (especially dance history). martha graham is one of the most important people in dance history, and being able to peek into her mind is exhilarating. i felt like i was a kid listening outside a door to a very adult conversation--like...
Dance Anatomy
AuthorJacqui Haas
ISBN0736081933
Powerful, expressive, and compelling! Now you can see what it takes to be a stronger, more elegant dancer. Featuring over 200 full-color illustrations, Dance Anatomy visually depicts the unique relationship between muscle development and aesthetic movement as never before.

Dance Anatomy...
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet
AuthorAgrippina Vaganova
ISBN0486220362
Although the stars of Russian ballet Anna Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina possessed a national manner of dancing, there was no truly Russian school of dancing until the 1930s. The development of this school was largely due to Mme. Vaganova (1879–1951), not only a great dancer but also the teacher of...
NYC Ballet Workout
AuthorPeter Martins
ISBN0688152023
New York City Ballet Workout is a revolutionary fitness program that will help you begin to develop lean abs, firm buttocks, a contoured waist, sculpted legs, slim thighs, strong arms, perfect posture, flexbility you never thought possible--and grace and poice of a dancer. More than three hundred...
Conditioning for Dance: Training for Peak Performance in All Dance Forms
AuthorEric Franklin
ISBN0736041567

Even the best sense of rhythm, the most careful technical training, and the most astute dance intuition aren't enough to make a dancer truly excel; you also need focused strength, balance, and flexibility to execute the movements with power and grace. Conditioning for Dance improves your technique...
The Art of Making Dances
AuthorDoris Humphrey
ISBN1852730536
(from the jacket)

Doris Humphrey's The Art of Making Dances is perhaps the most important book of its kind ever published. Written just before her death in 1958, it is Miss Humphrey's autobiography in art, a gathering together of her experiences in performance and a lucid and practical source...
The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
AuthorVaslav Nijinsky
ISBN0374139210
In December 1917, Vaslav Nijinsky, the most famous male dancer in the Western world, moved into a Swiss villa with his wife and three-year-old daughter and started to go insane. This diary, which he kept in four notebooks over six weeks, is the only sustained, on-the-spot account we have by a major artist...
Present Perfect: A Mindfulness Approach to Letting Go of Perfectionism and the Need for Control
AuthorPavel G. Somov
ISBN1572247568
While there's no doubt that setting high standards for yourself is a good thing, you've probably already noticed that perfectionism can come at a high price. And when you take steps to try to change, it's easy to be too hard on yourself and fall into the same traps that keep you feeling stressed and disappointed....
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