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Ballerina: A Step-by-Step Guide to Ballet
Learn the beautiful art of ballet!
Young dancers will love working through the pages of this ballet book. Beautiful photography, informative text, and an instructional DVD will take aspiring ballerinas from the basics of ballet to their first barre exercises, pas de bourrées, petit allegros and glissades.
Here’s what you’ll discover inside this illustrated ballet
• Features practical, step-by-step photography of students ages 6-9 and aspirational photography of real ballet students ages 12-15
• Step-by-steps for individual positions combine with complete dances to give the dancer an understanding of how it all fits together
• Close-ups of hand positions and feet positions will ensure that the reader can perfect their moves down to the last detail
• The DVD expands the world of the book by seeing the moves and individual dances in motion. Children can practice by dancing along with the DVD
A Step-by-Step Guide to Ballet , written by English National Ballet School’s Jane Hackett, is an authoritative guide on the art of ballet dancing. The book is the perfect reference for young ballerinas which they can use from their first lesson. The DVD allows readers to follow movements in their own time and brings the ballet class into the living room or home studio.
The ballet book shows dancers everything they need to know about ballet. Discover what to wear to class, how to learn simple arabesques, and master complete dances. The detailed step-by-step photography breaks down each movement while the close-ups and annotations point out the important details needed to perfect each move.
Young dancers will love working through the pages of this ballet book. Beautiful photography, informative text, and an instructional DVD will take aspiring ballerinas from the basics of ballet to their first barre exercises, pas de bourrées, petit allegros and glissades.
Here’s what you’ll discover inside this illustrated ballet
• Features practical, step-by-step photography of students ages 6-9 and aspirational photography of real ballet students ages 12-15
• Step-by-steps for individual positions combine with complete dances to give the dancer an understanding of how it all fits together
• Close-ups of hand positions and feet positions will ensure that the reader can perfect their moves down to the last detail
• The DVD expands the world of the book by seeing the moves and individual dances in motion. Children can practice by dancing along with the DVD
A Step-by-Step Guide to Ballet , written by English National Ballet School’s Jane Hackett, is an authoritative guide on the art of ballet dancing. The book is the perfect reference for young ballerinas which they can use from their first lesson. The DVD allows readers to follow movements in their own time and brings the ballet class into the living room or home studio.
The ballet book shows dancers everything they need to know about ballet. Discover what to wear to class, how to learn simple arabesques, and master complete dances. The detailed step-by-step photography breaks down each movement while the close-ups and annotations point out the important details needed to perfect each move.
- GenresNonfictionChildrens
80 pages, Hardcover
First published September 17, 2007
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February 6, 2008
This is one of the better juvenile non fiction books on ballet. This one actually used real dancers! The books used dancers from the Royal Opera Ballet and there is a definite difference in the quality. Great pictures, text, explanations of steps, and showing actual floor patterns of dances.
September 26, 2018
Love all the photos and step-by-step instructions.
Miss 4 and I like to explore different books and authors at the library, sometimes around particular topics or themes. We try to get different ones out every week or so; it's fun for both of us to have the variety and to look at a mix of new & favourite authors.
Miss 4 and I like to explore different books and authors at the library, sometimes around particular topics or themes. We try to get different ones out every week or so; it's fun for both of us to have the variety and to look at a mix of new & favourite authors.
June 9, 2019
I read a section a day with my daughter Zia, as I review ballet, in preparation to teach it to her, when she's old enough. The joy of being a working artist/professor is the fact that I don't make enough money to pay for lessons for her, but...I can review my own skills and get her far enough along, in the hopes that when and if she surpasses my skills, I'll be able to afford lessons by that time. She might not even like ballet, so...there's that, as well. I would have loved to be a dancer, but my family couldn't afford it, and by the time there was some supplemental income for me to take lessons; I was already in 8th grade, and my turn out was set to almost nothing. I also don't have much of an arch. I hope that if she does like it, she will be young enough to develop the strength in her hips and feet, which will allow her the choice. If not, it's good discipline and it's a foundation for so many movement forms.
The book is an easy, albeit incomplete guide to ballet. It gives a student some language to begin his/her journey. It's also a good primer. There is a DVD to follow along, and with day-to-day practice, I should be ready to give Zia the nascent skills she can use. It's also a lovely review for me, when I teach the dance sections of my musical theater class.
The book is an easy, albeit incomplete guide to ballet. It gives a student some language to begin his/her journey. It's also a good primer. There is a DVD to follow along, and with day-to-day practice, I should be ready to give Zia the nascent skills she can use. It's also a lovely review for me, when I teach the dance sections of my musical theater class.
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