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The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training & Technique

10 best books like The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training & Technique (Janice Barringer): A Dance of Sisters, Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet, Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina, The Sugarless Plum: A Ballerina's Triumph Over Diabetes, The Melting Season, Dancing on the Inside, Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal, White Swan, Black Swan, Holding On to the Air, A Very Young Dancer

A Dance of Sisters
AuthorTracey Porter
ISBN0064407519
I want to stretch to the moon, Delia thought. Far, far away.

Twelve-year-old Delia Ferri doesn't remember her mother, or her family the way it used to be. All she knows is that her sister, Pearl, and her father are fighting more and more. Pearl is withdrawn and angry, so Delia vows not to give her...
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...
Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
AuthorMaria Tallchief
ISBN0813028469
The definitive autobiography in a new paperback edition! "Maria Tallchief and American ballet came of age in the same moment. . . . Her story will always be the story of ballet conquering America. It was and is an American romance."--The New Yorker
  "Tallchief's autobiography provides us with...
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...
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...
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...
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet
AuthorGail Grant
ISBN0486218430
"Miss Grant has made more information available in one book than we have ever had before. Teacher's organizations would do well to consider the use of Miss Grant's Technical Manual as an official textbook." — Dance Magazine
Teacher recommended, Gail Grant's Technical Manual has long been one...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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