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1) Ballet 422
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When 25-year-old NYCB dancer Justin Peck begins to emerge as a promising young choreographer, he is commissioned to create a new ballet for the Company's 2013 Winter Season. With unprecedented access to an elite world, the film follows Peck as he collaborates with musicians, lighting designers, costume designers and his fellow dancers to create Paz de la Jolla, NYCB's 422nd new ballet.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In the wake of tragedy, a renowned New York dance company is on the brink of collapse. After previously leaving the dance world, Travis, Chrissa and Max are pulled in to resurrect the dance that had shattered their careers. They have this one last chance to not only save the company and to re-connect with the passion and magic, but to prove that miracles really can happen.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Now, they both teach in the family dance studio. When a suspicious accident occurs right before a big performance, the balance of sisterhood is threatened and family tensions rise.
"Bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott's revelatory and mesmerizing new novel set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio. When a suspicious accident occurs at their family-run ballet...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Russian artists Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky were popular in their time: Stravinsky for music, Nijinsky for dance. When their radically new ballet, The Rite of Spring, was first performed in Paris on May 29, 1913, the reaction was so polarized, there were fistfights and riots! Brilliant or disastrous, the performance marked the birth of modern music and dance. Stringer's rhythmic text and gloriously inventive, color-rich paintings capture...
Author
Series
Tiny pretty things volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet academy compete for the status of prima ballerina, with each willing to sacrifice, manipulate, and backstab to be the best of the best.
8) Tutu-rrific
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a mix-up causes her to be placed in the big kids' ballet class rather than her best friend Alison's, Pinkalicious tries to hold her own.
10) Center stage
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Vibrant and supremely gifted, the ballet students of a prestigious New York dance school are those who devote themselves to their art, sacrificing the normal loves and conflicts of youth, they vie for a place at an ultra-selective dance company.
The artistic director of the American Ballet Company is evaluating a tight-knit group of students as they face the growing pains of their world of dance. Managing their ambitions, romances, and heartbreaks...
11) Ballet bunnies
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Betty dreams of becoming a great dancer and performing onstage. At home, shes unstoppable, happily twirling, darting, and pirouetting through every room. But, in ballet class, everything changes: Betty suddenly feels clumsy, self-conscious, and frightened of forgetting the steps. Can she find her poise and balance in time for the big end-of-year recital? Every kid will shout BRAVO for this adorable little ballerina bunny!
12) Ballerina body
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Life & Style
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Misty Copeland believes "There has been a shift in recent years in which women no longer desire the bare bones of a runway model. Standards have changed: what women do want is a long, toned, powerful body with excellent posture." In other words, the body of a ballerina. In her first health and fitness book, Misty will show women how to find the motivation to get healthier and stronger, and how to reshape their bodies to be lean and flexible, with...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet-the gritty, hilarious, sometimes shocking truth you don't see from the orchestra circle"--
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 3
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tallulah is frustrated because the grownups will not let her try dancing in toe shoes yet, so she sneaks a pair out of the wastebasket and tries on her own.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Reeves is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Academy and enlists his top choreographers Charlie, Cooper and Tommy to recruit dancers to compete at a camp where the winners will be selected to join the Academy.
17) Tallulah's tutu
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tallulah takes ballet lessons and eagerly awaits her coveted tutu, which, she learns, she must work hard to earn.
18) Ballet school
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs present the activities at a ballet studio where young children warm up, practice the five basic positions, exercise at the barre, and watch teenage ballet dancers perform.
20) Ballets Russes
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films/Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Presents an oral history of the Ballets Russes from the point of view of its many surviving performers. Dancers discuss working with George Balanchine. Includes performance footage.
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