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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as dance)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,977 ratings — published 2014
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as dance)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,108 ratings — published 2010
Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as dance)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,254 ratings — published 2011
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as dance)
avg rating 4.07 — 39,000 ratings — published 1936
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as dance)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,074 ratings — published 2015
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as dance)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,558 ratings — published 2014
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as dance)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,513 ratings — published 1986
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as dance)
avg rating 3.62 — 20,011 ratings — published 2014
Flora and the Flamingo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as dance)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,713 ratings — published 2013
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)
by (shelved 60 times as dance)
avg rating 4.39 — 559 ratings — published 1967
Giraffes Can't Dance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as dance)
avg rating 4.34 — 34,023 ratings — published 2012
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as dance)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,954 ratings — published 2006
A Time to Dance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as dance)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,359 ratings — published 2014
How Do You Dance?: A Picture Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as dance)
avg rating 3.99 — 783 ratings — published 2019
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as dance)
avg rating 3.95 — 713 ratings — published 1982
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as dance)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,739 ratings — published 2014
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as dance)
avg rating 4.17 — 760 ratings — published 1990
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as dance)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,655 ratings — published 1985
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as dance)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,531 ratings — published 2003
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as dance)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,614 ratings — published 2015
Once a Dancer: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as dance)
avg rating 4.03 — 357 ratings — published 1997
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as dance)
avg rating 4.14 — 32,824 ratings — published 2003
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as dance)
avg rating 3.82 — 974 ratings — published 2014
Brontorina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as dance)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,486 ratings — published 2010
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as dance)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,188 ratings — published 2024
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as dance)
avg rating 3.61 — 36,503 ratings — published 2012
Dancing Feet! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as dance)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,480 ratings — published 2010
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as dance)
avg rating 3.33 — 1,416 ratings — published 2011
Instructions for Dancing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as dance)
avg rating 3.95 — 57,283 ratings — published 2021
Swing Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as dance)
avg rating 3.56 — 77,813 ratings — published 2016
The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as dance)
avg rating 4.36 — 615 ratings — published 2005
The Art of Making Dances (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as dance)
avg rating 3.95 — 213 ratings — published 1959
Finding My Dance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as dance)
avg rating 4.35 — 728 ratings — published 2022
Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as dance)
avg rating 4.16 — 719 ratings — published 2017
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as dance)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,711 ratings — published 2012
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as dance)
avg rating 3.45 — 11,845 ratings — published 2021
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as dance)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,056 ratings — published 2021
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 35 times as dance)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,656 ratings — published 2016
When Langston Dances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as dance)
avg rating 4.44 — 441 ratings — published
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as dance)
avg rating 4.02 — 779 ratings — published 2021
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as dance)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,727 ratings — published 1988
I Will Dance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as dance)
avg rating 4.40 — 628 ratings — published 2020
A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina's Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as dance)
avg rating 4.16 — 975 ratings — published 2014
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as dance)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,210 ratings — published 2016
Dancing Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as dance)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,590 ratings — published 1956
Boys Dance! (American Ballet Theatre)
by (shelved 31 times as dance)
avg rating 4.18 — 408 ratings — published 2020
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”
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“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others”
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