Wasatch County Library

"If you think you might like ballet, this book covers the basics on clothing, rules, and skills for beginner ballet stars"--

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...

"Jamie and her class are getting ready for their first ballet recital. Watch them learn new steps and meet some surprise guests!"--P. [4] of cover.

Explains and illustrates ballet technique as well as how a ballet performance is produced. Also highlights famous ballets.

Photographs and text describe the typical day of a ballet student.

It's a dance, dance, evolution! Get to know the plie, arabesque, and other basic steps, and see how ballet has changed over the years. From Anna Pavlova to Mikhail Baryshnikov to Misty Copeland, discover the dancers who added their signature style to this graceful dance form. Go behind the curtain to see what it takes to become a prima ballerina and how a performance comes together.

Angelina loves to dance and wants to become a ballerina more than anything else in the world.

Julia Costell begins an unglamorous job as a guidance counselor at a performing arts high school after her ballet career ends, and fears she will never find her purpose in life again, until she meets a young teen with an amazing gift.

"The friend zone is not the end zone for Bree Camden, who is helplessly in love with her longtime best friend and extremely hot NFL legend, Nathan Donelson. The only problem is that she can't admit her true feelings, because he clearly sees her as a best friend with no romantic potential, and the last thing Bree wants is to ruin their relationship. But those abs . . . Nope! Nothing but good old-fashioned, no-touching-the-sexiest-man-alive, platonic...