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The Ballet Book by Darcey Bussell
Helps teach how to dance adagio and allegro. This book helps you to look after your ballet shoes and make sure your make up is just right for your first night on stage. It contains everything you need to know to become a ballet dancer.
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RAD: Step-by-step Ballet Class
Illustrated Guide to the Official Ballet Syllabus (RAD: Royal Academy of Dancing)
Written with the full backing and expertise of the renowed Royal Academy of Dancing and following new international examination syllabus, this is a completely new edition of the bestselling Ballet Class. From the basic positions of the feet to exercises for the most advanced grades. Step-By-Step Ballet Class is an essential companion for everyone who is learning ballet. It gives a comprehensive selection of exercises taken from each of the examination grades, beginning with Pre-Primary and working up to Grade Five, the most advanced. Clear step-by-step illustrations and explanatory text take the dancer through each exercise in turn and there are checklists of important points to remember. Topics such as how to find a good ballet school, dressing for dance and taking an examination are also included. This important new book will ensure that dancers of all ages get the most out of their ballet tuition, both in and out of the classroom.
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The Ballet Companion
A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions and Joys of Ballet
"The Ballet Companion" is the first complete, illustrated reference book for the dancer. With more than 150 stunning photographs of ballet greats Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, "The Ballet Companion" brims with everything today's dance student needs including: practical advice for getting started, such as finding the right teacher, fitting a pointe shoe, tying a ballet bun; training safely through a sensible diet, injury prevention, and cross training with yoga and Pilates; inside information on backstage and studio etiquette and auditioning; technique secrets from stars of American Ballet Theatre; and glossaries and lavishly illustrated sidebars on ballet history and 'Must See' ballets. Whether a budding ballerina, serious student, or adult returning to ballet, dancers will find a graceful mix of ballet traditions and essential, new information.
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The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training and Technique
This guide provides a thorough examination of pointe shoes and pointe technique. Dancers quickly benefit from the most current research that offers the most recent information on hundreds of contemporary designs, materials, products, and suppliers. It illuminates the shoemaking process and gives advice about how to best fit, care for and custom-order shoes. The basics of point readiness, pointe technique, different pointe methods and the history of pointe are discussed. Includes a handy reference on pointe-related injuries and their remedies. The authors also provide an authoritative pointe class syllabus for teachers and students. In the last chapter four prominent ballerinas talk about their shoes, how they found the perfect fit and the joy of dancing on pointe.
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Life in Dance - Darcey Bussell
British, young, beautiful and exceptionally talented, Darcey Bussell has crossed from the dance world to become a household name. Consequently, Darcey is caught up in the media whirl which surrounds all modern celebrities. In this candid memoir she talks about her life on and off stage.
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Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes
Judith Mackrell
Lopokova led a life encompassed by ballet, Russian revolution and the Bloomsbury Group, every disparate strand woven skilfully together in Mackrell's thorough and absorbing biography
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