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"Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father in a city shifting from magic to industry. As Oblya's last true witches, she and her sisters are little more than a tourist trap as they treat their clients with archaic remedies and beguile them with nostalgic charm. Marlinchen spends her days divining secrets in exchange for rubles and trying to placate her tyrannical, xenophobic father, who keeps his daughters sequestered from the outside...
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"Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn't mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife Deb gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack's...
4) Match
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1 videodisc (92 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Toby is an eccentric, pot-smoking Manhattan ballet instructor whose quiet life is interrupted by the arrival of a young couple from Seattle, presumably there to interview him about his colorful life as a dancer in the 1960's. As Tobi spins salacious tales from his former career, an ulterior motive for the couple's visit emerges, forcing the trio to confront a secret that may connect them all. Driven by Stewart's tour-de-force performance, it moves...
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Astaire and Rogers collection volume 1
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A male ballet dancer and a female singer enter into a phony romance to generate publicity for their careers.
Petrov, a Russian ballet dancer, and Linda Keene, a musical comedy star, plan to marry and divorce to quell press rumors, but find they are falling in love despite the complicated circumstances.
6) Nureyev
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Biography of dancer Rudolf Nureyev with extensive archive material and extracts from ballet performances. Mentor Ninette de Valois, partner Margot Fonteyn, choreographer Roland Petit, dancer Sylvie Guillem and others comment on truth and legends surrounding Nureyev.
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Iconic ballerina Misty Copeland made history when she became the first African-American woman to be named principal dancer of the legendary American Ballet Theater. Get the incredible, behind-the-scenes story of how she overcame outmoded ballet culture stereotypes and near career-ending injuries to become one of the most revered dancers of her generation.
9) Limelight
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2 videodiscs (141 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Set in 1914 London, the film stars Chaplin as an aging music hall comic who's convinced he can no longer move people to laughter. But he gets a final opportunity to shine when he saves a young, equally desperate ballet dancer from suicide, then guides her to triumph on the stage.
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1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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As a Latin American nation nears collapse, idealistic policeman Agustin Rejas faces his greatest challenge: to catch the mysterious terrorist leader Ezequiel. Mass panic sets in as the terrorist attacks become more ferocious, and Rejas finds himself drawn to Yolanda, his daughter's beautiful ballet teacher. As the search for Ezequil comes nearer, he and Yolanda must choose between love, country, or self.
14) First position
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1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Profiles six contestants in the Youth America Grand Prix, a prestigious competition for aspiring young ballet dancers.
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340 pages ; 25 cm.
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Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Now, they both teach in the family dance studio. When a suspicious accident occurs right before a big performance, the balance of sisterhood is threatened and family tensions rise.
Ballet flows through their veins; Dara and Marie Durant were homeschooled and trained by their mother. Decades later the Durant School of Dance is theirs. The two sisters, together with Charlie, Dara's husband...
18) Billy Elliot
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
19) Today's ballet
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29 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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"It's a dance, dance, evolution! Get to know the plie, arabesque, and other basic steps, and see how ballet has changed over the years. From Anna Pavlova to Mikhail Baryshnikov to Misty Copeland, discover the dancers who added their signature style to this graceful dance form. Go behind the curtain to see what it takes to become a prima ballerina and how a performance comes together"--
20) Ballet dancer
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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The reader is introduced to and guided through the basic steps and techniques of ballet. The beautiful history, development, and famous artists of ballet are also discussed.
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