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Ballet Books
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Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,205 ratings — published 2011
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.67 — 15,833 ratings — published 2015
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,764 ratings — published 2014
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,062 ratings — published 2010
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 38,266 ratings — published 1936
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 19,758 ratings — published 2014
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,480 ratings — published 1986
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.96 — 698 ratings — published 1982
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.61 — 36,302 ratings — published 2012
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.45 — 11,522 ratings — published 2021
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,601 ratings — published 1985
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,641 ratings — published 2012
The Turnout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.12 — 23,053 ratings — published 2021
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.16 — 737 ratings — published 1990
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,042 ratings — published 2023
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,608 ratings — published 2014
Russian Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,341 ratings — published 2010
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 971 ratings — published 2014
The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.36 — 609 ratings — published 2005
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,538 ratings — published 2014
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,606 ratings — published 2015
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.49 — 352 ratings — published 1969
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,020 ratings — published 2021
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 753 ratings — published 2021
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.14 — 32,410 ratings — published 2003
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,094 ratings — published 2016
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,931 ratings — published 2006
Girl Through Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,404 ratings — published 2016
Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.58 — 464 ratings — published 2012
They're Going to Love You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.06 — 15,322 ratings — published 2022
Ballerina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 519 ratings — published 1979
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,610 ratings — published 1988
Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,240 ratings — published 2019
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,652 ratings — published 2016
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.39 — 557 ratings — published 1967
Classical Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.56 — 353 ratings — published 1989
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.22 — 453 ratings — published 2016
White Swan, Black Swan (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by (shelved 30 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.54 — 339 ratings — published 2001
Once a Dancer: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 353 ratings — published 1997
Nocturne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.24 — 2,179 ratings — published 2023
Kisses and Croissants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.76 — 20,779 ratings — published 2021
The Walls Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.69 — 10,661 ratings — published 2014
City of Night Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.63 — 11,291 ratings — published 2024
Midnight in Everwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.54 — 10,695 ratings — published 2021
Off Balance (Ballet Theatre Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.76 — 812 ratings — published 2015
Various Positions (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.03 — 1,144 ratings — published 2011
101 Stories of the Great Ballets: The Scene-by-Scene Stories of the Most Popular Ballets, Old and New (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 227 ratings — published 1975
Nureyev: The Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.12 — 545 ratings — published 2007
“Para bailar, hay que merecerlo. Bailar sobre un escenario y delante de público constituye la mayor de las felicidades. A decir verdad, incluso sin público, incluso sin escenario, bailar es el colmo de la embriaguez. Una alegría tan profunda justifica los sacrificios más crueles. La educación que os damos aquí tiende a presentar la danza como lo que es: no un medio sino una recompensa.”
― The Book of Proper Names
― The Book of Proper Names
“Let us take care of our Garden of Eden with the fragrance of its flowers and the oxygen of its sheltering trees and savor the fruits of each precious single moment ever since life can be a sparkling ballet expressing the beauties and values that enlighten and enrich us. ( "Why step out of nature?")”
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