ballet

Two fifteen-year-old American ballet students, a boy and a girl, discuss their training, their lives and experiences as performers, and their hopes for ballet stardom.

Presents the history of dance, the birth of ballet, a wealth of information on performers and ballets, and material on the modern offshoots of ballet. Includes a chronology of dance from 1851.

Covers the history of modern dance including information on performers and performances of the past as well as the work of major dancers and choreographers from the 1980s to the present day.

Text and pictures describe ballet from its origins to the present, ballet production, concise plots of ballets and includes a glossary of terms and an interview with Lynn Seymour.

A little girl travels with the Nutcracker Prince to the Land of Cake and Candy. Illustrated with photographs from performances by the New York City Ballet.

A dance teacher explains ballet techniques to her young pupils and includes in the lessons the history of ballet, stories of the great dancers, and discussions of famous ballets.

Introduces familiar ballet steps, demonstrating what lies behind these seemingly effortless movements and how they are woven into classical ballet.

Discusses ballet techniques and steps, dancers, companies, costumes, and stories of famous ballets.

Brenda Black tries to dig her way out of a mess when she tells her bragging cousin, Tiffany, that she not only knows who prima ballerina Miss Camilla Freeman is, she actually has an autographed pair of her toe shoes.