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Author
Publisher
Dk Pub
Language
English
Description
Photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in DK Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge.My First Ballet Recital is the story of a girl's preparation for her first ballet performance, where she and her classmates can show off all they've learned.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 6
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Language
English
Description
Second-grade best friends Ivy and Bean beg for ballet lessons, then, when they are cast as squids in their first recital, scheme to find a way out of what seems to be boring, hard, and potentially embarrassing.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Pinkalicious can't wait to go to ballet class with her best friend, Alison, and to wear a pink tutu, pink tights, and pink ballet slippers. Things take a turn when there's a mix-up and Pinkalicious ends up in the big kids' class. Will Pinkalicious get lost among the leaps, or will she be able to jump to new heights?
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. A ballerina dancing today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and culture that followed. From ballet's origins in the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Festival
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
What starts out as dancing school just for Dad quickly turns into a ballet class for Nancy's whole family. Fans of Fancy Nancy will delight in learning to plié, pirouette, and jeté with Nancy as she demonstrates all of the positions she's learned in ballet class.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
The film is made as a concert which is composed of unique fragments of dances from the famous performances of the great ballet dancers of the XX century, who brought fame to the Bolshoi theatre. The film depicts stories about their creative activities. One could see Ann Pavlova in the dance "The Dying swan, Sulamifj Messerer and Asaf Messerer in the dances specially staged for them, Marina Semenova in the Swan lake, Olga Lepeshinskaya and Peter Gusev,...
13) The Company
Publisher
Columbia Tri-Star
Language
English
Description
THE COMPANY is "a completely new kind of film" raves Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times a fascinating look at the world of dance with the cooperation of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. Legendary director an
16) On your Toes
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Barbie and Kelly look at photographs of Barbie's ballet performances.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Language
English
Description
Centered around his 1995 staging of Voluntaries, one of the choreographer’s most beautiful and moving ballets, this documentary presents an eye opening peek into the creative process of dance. “I have always wanted to be free,” says Tetley in this portrait, explaining why he never had an exclusive association with one particular dance company. As a result he led an extremely varied life in dance, working with many superior talents in many places,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Description
Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Stan Brakhage called Maya Deren “the mother of us all.” The history of avant-garde film is unthinkable without her.
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