Introduces ballet and the training of a dancer, and follows a typical professional dancer from a morning class through rehearsals and preparations for going on stage to an evening performance.
Leap into the world of a ballet dancer! In this engaging nonfiction book, readers learn about the history of this art form as well as what a ballet dancer does to get ready for a performance.
A Day in the Life of a Ballet Dancer
Follows a ballet dancer through a typical day.
Leap into the world of a ballet dancer! In this engaging nonfiction book, readers learn about the history of this art form as well as what a ballet dancer does to get ready for a performance.
Follows ballet dancer Lisa Torres through her day at home and work. A Level 1 DK Reader
A firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer, the forces that drive a person to study dance, and the dancer's continual quest to discover who they are as a person and an artist.
Starting out with the obligatory daily 'class', the book progresses through the repetition of rehearsals, the excitement of creating new work, the nervous tension of the half hour call, the pressures of performance and the anti-climax of ...
Dancing on Water is both a personal coming-of-age story and a sweeping look at ballet life in Russia and the United States during the golden age of dance.
Photographs of a ten-year-old student in George Balanchine's School of American Ballet, supplemented by her descriptions of her feelings and experiences, provide insight to the excitement and hard work involved in auditioning and rehearsing ...
Follows ballet dancer Lisa Torres through her day at home and work.