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Ballet Books
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Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,221 ratings — published 2011
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.67 — 15,925 ratings — published 2015
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,839 ratings — published 2014
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,075 ratings — published 2010
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 38,568 ratings — published 1936
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 19,837 ratings — published 2014
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,494 ratings — published 1986
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.61 — 36,373 ratings — published 2012
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.95 — 705 ratings — published 1982
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.45 — 11,673 ratings — published 2021
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,622 ratings — published 1985
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,665 ratings — published 2012
The Turnout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.12 — 23,505 ratings — published 2021
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet – A Powerful Memoir from the School of American Ballet and the Women Who Survived It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,098 ratings — published 2023
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.16 — 745 ratings — published 1990
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,656 ratings — published 2014
Russian Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,369 ratings — published 2010
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 974 ratings — published 2014
The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.36 — 611 ratings — published 2005
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,537 ratings — published 2014
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,609 ratings — published 2015
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 761 ratings — published 2021
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.49 — 353 ratings — published 1969
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,034 ratings — published 2021
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.14 — 32,554 ratings — published 2003
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,938 ratings — published 2006
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,133 ratings — published 2016
Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.59 — 467 ratings — published 2012
They're Going to Love You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.06 — 16,493 ratings — published 2022
Girl Through Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,406 ratings — published 2016
Ballerina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 524 ratings — published 1979
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,651 ratings — published 2016
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,665 ratings — published 1988
Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,248 ratings — published 2019
Classical Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.56 — 356 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 — 456 ratings — published 2016
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)
by (shelved 31 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.39 — 559 ratings — published 1967
City of Night Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.63 — 12,136 ratings — published 2024
Nocturne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.24 — 2,249 ratings — published 2023
White Swan, Black Swan (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.54 — 340 ratings — published 2001
Kisses and Croissants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.76 — 21,183 ratings — published 2021
The Walls Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.68 — 10,698 ratings — published 2014
Midnight in Everwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.53 — 11,278 ratings — published 2021
Once a Dancer: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 354 ratings — published 1997
101 Stories of the Great Ballets: The Scene-by-Scene Stories of the Most Popular Ballets, Old and New (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 229 ratings — published 1975
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.31 — 5,714 ratings — published
Off Balance (Ballet Theatre Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.76 — 813 ratings — published 2015
Various Positions (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.02 — 1,141 ratings — published 2011
“Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.”
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“Classic Ballet,
Keep away, keep building your creaky fairy castles, keep cloning clones and meaningless manners, hang on to your beanstalk ballerinas and their midget male shadows, run yourself out of business with your tons of froufrou and costly clattery toe shoes that ruin all chances for illusions of lightness, keep on crowding the minds of blind balletomanes who prefer dainty poses to the eloquent strength of momentum, who have forgotten or never known the manings of gesture, who would nod their noses to barefoot embargos ("so grab me" spelt backwards). Continue to repolish your stiff technique and to ignore a public that hungers for something other than a bag of tricks and the empty-headedness of surface patterns.
Just keep it up, keep imitating yourself, and, , go grow your own dance makers. Come on, don't keep trying to filter modern ones through your so-safe extablishment. We're to be seen undiluted, undistorted, not absorbed by your hollow world like blood into a sponge.
Yours truly,
A Different Leaf on Our Family Tree”
― Private Domain: An Autobiography
Keep away, keep building your creaky fairy castles, keep cloning clones and meaningless manners, hang on to your beanstalk ballerinas and their midget male shadows, run yourself out of business with your tons of froufrou and costly clattery toe shoes that ruin all chances for illusions of lightness, keep on crowding the minds of blind balletomanes who prefer dainty poses to the eloquent strength of momentum, who have forgotten or never known the manings of gesture, who would nod their noses to barefoot embargos ("so grab me" spelt backwards). Continue to repolish your stiff technique and to ignore a public that hungers for something other than a bag of tricks and the empty-headedness of surface patterns.
Just keep it up, keep imitating yourself, and, , go grow your own dance makers. Come on, don't keep trying to filter modern ones through your so-safe extablishment. We're to be seen undiluted, undistorted, not absorbed by your hollow world like blood into a sponge.
Yours truly,
A Different Leaf on Our Family Tree”
― Private Domain: An Autobiography
