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Angelina's Cinderella

2015
Angelina and the other mouselings at Miss Lilly's Ballet School perform Cinderella on tour, battling homesickness and bad luck to ensure the show will go on.

Degas and the Dancer

In 1874 Paris, painter Edgar Degas is struggling with debt after his father's death. He takes a job illustrating a small book on opera and becomes inspired by a young ballerina named Marie.

Private view

inside Baryshnikov's American Ballet Theatre
1988

Off pointe

2014
When Meg's summer ballet program is canceled and her teacher encourages her to enroll in Camp Dance, she must learn to try a different form of dance and get along with other dancers.

The painted girls

a novel
2013
In Paris, France, the Van Goethem sisters struggle for survival after the sudden death of their father, a situation that prompts young Marie's ballet training and her introduction to a genius painter.

Ballet spectacular

a young ballet lover's guide and an insight into a magical world
2015
A guide to ballet that features images of The Royal Ballet and profiles of world-renowned dancers.

Rebel on pointe

a memoir of ballet & Broadway
From the stifling world of suburbia in the 1950's to grand, historic dance theaters and the bright lights of the Broadway stage, this is the story of ballerina, Lee Wilson. She dared to dream she could grow up to be a star, and in 1962, fresh out of high school and only sixteen years old, she left her home and country to make a five-day journey across the Atlantic. Eight months later she made her professional dance debut in Monte Carlo at a command performance for Prince Rainer and Princess Grace.

The dancer's way

the New York City Ballet guide to mind, body, and nutrition
2009

Ballet's magic kingdom

selected writings on dance in Russia, 1911-1925
2008
Contains forty articles from Akim Volynsky, a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian; in which he details the careers of Russian ballet dancers such as Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Fokine, George Balanchine, and others; as well as his writings on classical dance technique.

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