SOLVED. Children's book about a ballerina who goes on to dance for Balanchine, late 1990s

[Sara]

Looking for a children's illustrated book (not a chapter book but longer than a picture book) about a blonde ballerina's career. Read in the late 1990s, was fairly new at the time.

Here are all the plot/book details I remember:

- At one point in the book, the ballerina goes to a try out where the dancers are separated in the left or the right. Thinking she's been sent to the bad group, she goes to the other group but the other group is the one that gets eliminated so she explains what happened and goes with the right group

- There is a diagram of how to sew ribbon into pointe shoes, I think her mom helps her but she learns to do it on her own.

- When she gets older, she dances for Balanchine, I think in the Nutcracker but maybe not that.

[Sara]

Hi all! My friend messaged me because they found it. Here is the book!

Ballerina Dreams