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81) Ballet Bruce
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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When the geese ask him for assistance with getting new ballet gear, Bruce the ever-grumpy bear agrees to help his friends get ready to stretch their wings and follow their dream of dancing.
82) Ballet stars
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Two friends get ready and then dance with their ballet class at a performance where they are the stars of the show.
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232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
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English
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This cornerstone of the World of Art series is a succinct, vivid and authoritative guide to the rich history of western dance in all its incarnations from 16th-century court ballet to the genre-shattering contortions of 21st-century theatrical dance. Updated for the new millennium to feature the latest styles, performers and technology.
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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...
85) Ballerina swan
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Sophie the swan joins a ballet class and works hard to earn a part in the end-of-year performance of Swan Lake.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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"A is for arabesque, B is for Baryshnikov, and C is for Coppélia in this beautifully illustrated, rhyming, alphabetic picture book, filled with ballet stars, dances, positions, and terminology. Written by the acclaimed author of A Is for Audra: Broadway's Leading Ladies from A to Z, the dazzling, creative wordplay forms a graceful pas de deux with the stylish, swooping lines and rich color of the sumptuous illustrations. In partnership with the American...
87) The red slippers
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Nancy Drew diaries volume 11
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English
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Nancy's friend Maggie gets a star role in the dance Sleeping beauty. Someone is intent on ending Maggie's career. Will Nancy be able to solve the case?
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Angelina's diary volume 2
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74 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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When she is chosen to dance for the birthday celebration of Princess Sophie of Mouseland, Angelina finds a new friend at the palace.
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112 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Dance prodigy, sex symbol, gay pioneer, cultural icon -- Vaslav Nijinsky rose to fame as the star of the Ballets Russes in Paris before mental illness stole his career and the last thirty years of his life. A tragic story of a great genius, this compelling work of narrative nonfiction chronicles a life of obsessive artistry, celebrity, and notoriety.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, portraits ; 27 x 22 cm.
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English
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"For decades the prominent image of a ballet dancer has been a white body with pale clothing. It took 75 years for American Ballet Theatre to have its first African American female principal dancer, Misty Copeland. When TaKiyah Wallace-McMillian went to enroll her three-year-old daughter into her first ballet class, she immediately saw this lack of diversity and representation -- even on her local dance studio's website. Within weeks TaKiyah, a freelance...
94) Nureyev
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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.
95) Center stage
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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The artistic director of the American Ballet Company is evaluating a tight-knit group of students as they face the growing pains of their world of dance. Managing their ambitions, romances, and heartbreaks proves to be both invigorating and painful.
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When her mother suddenly dies, Sara must abandon her plans to become a ballerina and join her estranged father on Chicago's gritty South side. She feels out of place until she is befriended by a black classmate and her handsome brother, Derek. Sara and Derek's shared love for dance leads to romance-- and opposition from their families and friends.
100) Brave enough
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English
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Cason Martin is the youngest ballerina in the Atlanta Ballet Conservatory; her mother, the conservatory's artistic director, has made all the decisions for her. But Cason has been hiding an injury, and now she's undergoing chemotherapy. Davis Channing survived cancer, but his drug addiction nearly killed him. He's doing community service at the hospital, and has been sober for seven months. Then his ex-girlfriend, still battling her addiction, reenters...
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