The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet
10 best books like The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet (Eliza Gaynor Minden): Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, (3 in 1)うずまき, Ballet Cat The Totally Secret Secret, Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet, A Very Young Dancer, Once a Dancer: An Autobiography, The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training & Technique, 101 Stories of the Great Ballets: The Scene-by-Scene Stories of the Most Popular Ballets, Old and New, Margot Fonteyn, Classical Ballet Technique, Basic Principles of Classical Ballet
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, (3 in 1)うずまき
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 4091858163 |
Wow, what a macabre masterpiece. This was gory and grotesque and very disturbing and at the same time the story is amazing and I could hardly put it down. It was amazing and it had boundless imagination. The story kept getting more and more hopeless until the bitter end. I mean this really is a horror story,...
| Author | Bob Shea |
| ISBN | 1484713788 |
Ballet Cat and Sparkles the Pony are trying to decide what to play today. Nothing that Sparkles suggests--making crafts, playing checkers, and selling lemonade--goes well with the leaping, spinning, and twirling that Ballet Cat likes to do. When Sparkles's leaps, spins, and twirls seem halfhearted,...
| 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 | Jill Krementz |
| ISBN | 0394408853 |
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...
| Author | Allegra Kent |
| ISBN | 0312187505 |
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 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...
| Author | George Balanchine |
| ISBN | 0385033982 |
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...
| Author | Meredith Daneman |
| ISBN | 0140165304 |
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...
| 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...
| Author | Agrippina Vaganova |
| ISBN | 0486220362 |
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...
| Author | Peter Martins |
| ISBN | 0688152023 |
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...
| Author | Jenifer Ringer |
| ISBN | 0670026492 |
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...
