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1 videodisc (approximately 104 minutes) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ric Burns presents this rich, 75-year history of one of the most respected and revered dance companies in the world. With unprecedented access to the company, witness dramatic live performances, grueling rehearsals, and iconic dances by Misty Copeland, Gillian Murphy, and many others; as well as rare footage of ballet icons Jerome Robbins, George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and more.
4) Ballet dance
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
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English
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"Describes ballet dancing, including history, training, moves, and performance"--Provided by publisher.
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xvii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of ballet As much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad-in Russia, Italy, and France. In Celestial Bodies, dance critic Laura Jacobs makes the foreign familiar, providing a lively, poetic, and uniquely accessible introduction to the world...
6) Brontorina
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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Despite her size and not having the proper footwear, a determined dinosaur pursues her dream of becoming a ballerina.
7) Ballet 422
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1 videodisc (approximately 75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When 25-year-old NYCB dancer Justin Peck begins to emerge as a promising young choreographer, he is commissioned to create a new ballet for the Company's 2013 Winter Season. With unprecedented access to an elite world, the film follows Peck as he collaborates with musicians, lighting designers, costume designers and his fellow dancers to create Paz de la Jolla, NYCB's 422nd new ballet.
10) Today's ballet
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29 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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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"--
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"A girl explores her love of dancing and her cultural identity in a lively picture book with echoes of the real-life collaboration between Bharatanatyam icon Rukmini Devi Arundale and ballerina Anna Pavlova. Paro comes from a dancing family. At home, she dances Bharatanatyam with her mom, and now she's excited to learn ballet. But what if she can't dance like the other kids in her class? Ballerinas move like fairies, while Bharatanatyam dancers seem...
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xxv, 643 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. A ballerina dancing today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and culture that followed. From ballet's origins in the...
13) Bea at ballet
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Bea and her friends have fun attending a toddler ballet class"--
14) Tallulah's solo
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English
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Tallulah strives for perfection during ballet class and dreams of dancing a solo in the upcoming recital, but her little brother, Beckett, who misbehaves all during class, gets a better role than she does.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm.
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English
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A cow who wants to be a ballerina? Are you for real? This is a hilarious, one-of-a-kind friendship story between an adventurous cow named Moo Moo and a very loyal duck named Mr. Quackers that will have you quacking up all the way through and applauding for more.
16) Lili at ballet
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Lili dreams of becoming a ballerina and goes to her ballet lessons four afternoons a week.
19) First position
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1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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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1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 43/4in. + 1 booklet (10 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 18 cm)
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English
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"Featuring some of the world's most exciting and talented dancers, this sparkling collection brings together some of the best scenes from your favourite ballets - from the graceful elegance and passion of Swan Lake, to the humour and wit of the Clog Dance from La Fille mal gardée and the exuberant liveliness of The Nutcracker, this is a perfect collection for any ballet beginner"--Container.
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