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International Encyclopedia of Dance: A Project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc. : Vol 1

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International Encyclopedia of Dance: A Project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc. : Vol 1

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Cohen, Selma Jeanne

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0195123050

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9780195123050

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0195123050

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545 pp

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Mar 26, 1998

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Mar 26, 1998

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More Balanchine Variations

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More Balanchine Variations

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0813037530

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9780813037530

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0813037530

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160 pp

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4.56

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9

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Oct 30, 2011

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Oct 30, 2011

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Balanchine Variations

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Balanchine Variations

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0813032261

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9780813032269

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0813032261

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160 pp

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28

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May 11, 2008

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May 11, 2008

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First We Take Manhattan (Choreography and Dance Studies Series)

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First We Take Manhattan

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Theodores, Diana

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3718658860

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9783718658862

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3718658860

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200 pp

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4.33

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3

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Sep 01, 1996

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Sep 08, 1997

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Ballet music;: An intr...

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Ballet music;: An introduction

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Searle, Humphrey

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0486229173

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9780486229171

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0486229173

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268 pp

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Jan 1973

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Jan 01, 1973

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet (Oxford Paperback Reference)

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet

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0193113309

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9780193113305

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0193113309

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unknown

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4.30

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10

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Oct 14, 1982

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Oct 14, 1982

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Balanchine the Teacher: Fundamentals That Shaped the First Generation of New York City Ballet Dancers

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Balanchine the Teacher: Fundamentals That Shaped the First Generation of New York City Ballet Dancers

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WALCZAK, BARBARA

isbn

0813032520

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9780813032528

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0813032520

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288 pp

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4.17

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6

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Sep 04, 2008

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Sep 04, 2008

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The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training, Technique

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The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training, Technique

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Barringer, Janice

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0871273578

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9780871273574

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0871273578

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368 pp

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4.28

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217

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Dec 01, 1990

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May 15, 2012

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This is an exhaustive compendium of all things pointe, including making the shoes, fitting them, sewing them, breaking them in, training in them and b This is an exhaustive compendium of all things pointe, including making the shoes, fitting them, sewing them, breaking them in, training in them and being injured by them. The biggest takeaway is that no one agrees on anything. How to tie ribbons, what (if anything) to wear inside pointe shoes, when a dancer is ready for pointe work - all controversial. Let's not even get into rolling up to pointe versus springing onto it (though now having attempted both and succeeded at neither, I will become a proponent of whichever method I accomplish first).

The most fascinating part was Gaynor Minden and shoes made from "space-age" materials. Gaynor Minden flies in the face of centuries of shoemaking and basically makes Nikes in the shape of pointe shoes. Gaynor Mindens have injection-molded elastometric components so they never break, don't need to be/can't be broken in, and might last a month, rather than one performance. On the one hand, why isn't everyone wearing these? On the other hand, how dare they? Ballet is beautiful and impractical, and what I really want is a papier-mache shoe handmade by a grumpy old British or Russian man, which is about 99% of pointe shoes.

There's a terrifying chapter on foot injuries, a disconcerting number of which are contagious (ew). There are also fun tidbits from company shoe masters ("I put my foot in a pointe shoe once, and it was awful!") and dancers (male dancer Anton Wilson did pointe work to strengthen his feet and very vocally suffered from blisters and bruised toenails such that he dreaded the thought of having to perform, the poor dear). Paloma Herrera wears nothing in her shoes, good lord, Tiler Peck wears Ouch Pouches, and NYCB dancers like to wrap their feet in paper towels. And most of the dancers here agree that they want their shoes to be silent because apparently "dancing is more nuanced and magical when you cannot hear a sound." ...more

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Dancers' Body Book

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Dancers' Body Book

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0688015395

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9780688015398

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0688015395

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224 pp

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3.47

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107

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Mar 21, 1984

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Mar 21, 1984

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This book is just amazing. It has a fantastic cover and is rife with fabulous photos and unsound health advice. It also caused me to meet a lovely, in This book is just amazing. It has a fantastic cover and is rife with fabulous photos and unsound health advice. It also caused me to meet a lovely, insane flight attendant who said he used to teach at the San Francisco Ballet.

A bit sad, as my crazy madwoman's tour of ballet books written by/about NYCB dancers is coming to a close, with the exception of Edward Gorey's book, The Lavender Leotard, which features Edward Gorey drawings of Balanchine choreography. Obviously must get hands on this immediately. ...more

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The Joffrey Ballet School's Ballet-Fit

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The Joffrey Ballet School's Ballet-Fit

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Leopold, Allison Kyle

isbn

0312194706

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9780312194703

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0312194706

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272 pp

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3.86

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87

date pub

Feb 15, 1999

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Feb 15, 1999

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