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Author : Sue Fliess
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780553497588
A little girl invites us into her ballet class, and later performs onstage (gulp!) in her first recital. Young readers will enjoy seeing what happens in a class, and young ballerinas will see themselves in this book.
Author : Valerie Coulman
Publisher : Lobster Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1894222911
An irresistible and determined ballerina shows readers how to reach for their dreams.
Author : Jane Feldman
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Ballerinas
ISBN : PSU:000043380114
A young girl describes her life and her experiences studying to become a professional ballet dancer.
Author : Anna Pavlova
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Ballerinas
ISBN : 0689846762
The story of a girl's first trip to the ballet and the dreams it inspired; leading her to become a legendary ballerina.
Author : Jacques D'Amboise
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307595232
“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, and former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet for more than three decades, tells the extraordinary story of his life in dance, and of America’s most renowned and admired dance companies. He writes of his classical studies beginning at the age of eight at The School of American Ballet. At twelve he was asked to perform with Ballet Society; three years later he joined the New York City Ballet and made his European debut at London’s Covent Garden. As George Balanchine’s protégé, d’Amboise had more works choreographed on him by “the supreme Ballet Master” than any other dancer, among them Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux; Episodes; A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream; Jewels; Raymonda Variations. He writes of his boyhood—born Joseph Ahearn—in Dedham, Massachusetts; his mother (“the Boss”) moving the family to New York City’s Washington Heights; dragging her son and daughter to ballet class (paying the teacher $7.50 from hats she made and sold on street corners, and with chickens she cooked stuffed with chestnuts); his mother changing the family name from Ahearn to her maiden name, d’Amboise (“It’s aristocratic. It has the ‘d’ apostrophe. It sounds better for the ballet, and it’s a better name”). We see him. a neighborhood tough, in Catholic schools being taught by the nuns; on the streets, fighting with neighborhood gangs, and taking ten classes a week at the School of American Ballet . . . being taught professional class by Balanchine and by other teachers of great legend: Anatole Oboukhoff, premier danseur of the Maryinsky; and Pierre Vladimiroff, Pavlova’s partner. D’Amboise writes about Balanchine’s succession of ballerina muses who inspired him to near-obsessive passion and led him to create extraordinary ballets, dancers with whom d’Amboise partnered—Maria Tallchief; Tanaquil LeClercq, a stick-skinny teenager who blossomed into an exquisite, witty, sophisticated “angel” with her “long limbs and dramatic, mysterious elegance . . .”; the iridescent Allegra Kent; Melissa Hayden; Suzanne Farrell, who Balanchine called his “alabaster princess,” her every fiber, every movement imbued with passion and energy; Kay Mazzo; Kyra Nichols (“She’s perfect,” Balanchine said. “Uncomplicated—like fresh water”); and Karin von Aroldingen, to whom Balanchine left most of his ballets. D’Amboise writes about dancing with and courting one of the company’s members, who became his wife for fifty-three years, and the four children they had . . . On going to Hollywood to make Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and being offered a long-term contract at MGM (“If you’re not careful,” Balanchine warned, “you will have sold your soul for seven years”) . . . On Jerome Robbins (“Jerry could be charming and complimentary, and then, five minutes later, attack, and crush your spirit—all to see how it would influence the dance movements”). D’Amboise writes of the moment when he realizes his dancing career is over and he begins a new life and new dream teaching children all over the world about the arts through the magic of dance. A riveting, magical book, as transformative as dancing itself.
Author : Deirdre Kelly
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781771640008
Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection--the feminine ideal. But the reality is another story. From the earliest ballerinas in the 17th century--who often led double lives as concubines--through the poverty of the corps de ballet dancers in the 1800's and the anorexic and bulimic ballerinas of George Balanchine, starvation and exploitation have plagued ballerinas throughout history. Using the stories of great dancers such as Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Suzanne Farrell, Gelsey Kirkland, Evelyn Hart, Marie Camargo, and Misty Copeland, Deirdre Kelly exposes the true rigors for women in ballet. She rounds her critique with examples of how the world of ballet is slowly evolving for the better. But to ensure that this most graceful of dance forms survives into the future, she says that the time has come to rethink ballet, to position the ballerina at its center and accord her the respect she deserves.
Author : Anna Membrino
Publisher : Random House Studio
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385378642
Mia's big sister teaches her that there is more to being a ballerina than just putting on the right clothes.
Author : Christy Webster
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375868399
Young girls will love joining Barbie as she leaps, twirls, and pirouettes in this Step 2 reader, I Can Be a Ballerina.
Author : Valerie Coulman
Publisher : Lobster Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ballerinas
ISBN : 1897073208
An irresistible and determined ballerina shows readers how to reach for their dreams.
Author : Peter Sis
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780688179441
Do you love to dance? If so, this is the book for you! Twist! Stretch! Reach! Leap! Be a swan! Be a tiger! Be a flame! Be a ballerina!
Author : Anne Marie Pace
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781484717363
Oh, to be a ballerina! It's a challenge for any little girl, but even more so if you happen to be a vampire like Vampirina. First of all, you have to find a class that meets at night. Then you have to figure out how to perfect your form when you can't see yourself in the mirror? And then there's wearing pink (not the most flattering of colors if you happen to be undead) and that nagging urge to take a little nip out of the other dancers. And worse of all... STAGE FRIGHT!!!
Author : Misty Copeland,Charisse Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476737980
Profiles the life and career of the professional ballerina, covering from when she began dance classes at age thirteen in an after-school community center through becoming the only African American soloist dancing with the American Ballet Theatre.
Author : Gavin Larsen
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813065953
Finalist, the Arts Club of Washington Marfield Prize A look inside a dancer’s world Inspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Through episodes from her own career, Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a person to study dance; the daily balance that dancers navigate between hardship and joy; and the dancer’s continual quest to discover who they are as a person and as an artist. Starting with her arrival as a young beginner at a class too advanced for her, Larsen tells how the embarrassing mistake ended up helping her learn quickly and advance rapidly. In other stories of her early teachers, training, and auditions, she explains how she gradually came to understand and achieve what she and her body were capable of. Larsen then re-creates scenes from her experiences in dance companies, from unglamorous roles to exhilarating performances. Working as a ballerina was shocking and scary at first, she says, recalling unexpected injuries, leaps of faith, and her constant struggle to operate at the level she wanted—but full of enormously rewarding moments. Larsen also reflects candidly on her difficult decision to retire at age 35. An ideal read for aspiring dancers, Larsen’s memoir will also delight experienced dance professionals and fascinate anyone who wonders what it takes to live a life dedicated to the perfection of the art form.
Author : Elise Gravel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1761298658
Author : Monica Loughman,Jean Harrington
Publisher : Maverick House
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781907221392
Monica Loughman’s story is the enchanting tale of a 14-year-old girl leaving the comforts of home to train in a strict and austere Russian ballet school. She brought her dreams of becoming a professional ballerina with her. While many young ballerinas’ aspirations are unfulfilled, Loughman became a dancing sensation and was the first Western European to join Russia's distinguished Perm State Theatre of Opera and Ballet.Not just for ballet lovers, this gripping tale also details the endurance and stamina needed to survive in post Soviet-Union Russia. Monica vividly evokes the closed and foreign world of ballet with natural assurance. Her book also reveals the brutality and suffering that often lies behind ballet's fairytale facade. Ballerina is the story of a young girl’s single-minded determination to succeed against the odds. It is a truly engrossing story.