The Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet

The Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet

Author: Cyril W. Beaumont

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-06-26

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0486122913

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A complete beginning course in classical ballet, this volume is based on the teachings of the celebrated instructor, Enrico Cecchetti. Features a numbered series of instructions for each exercise, plus 109 detailed illustrations.


Basic Principles of Classical Ballet

Basic Principles of Classical Ballet

Author: Agrippina Vaganova

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-18

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 0486121054

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Discusses all basic principles of ballet, grouping movement by fundamental types. Diagrams show clearly the exact foot, leg, arm, and body positions for the proper execution of many steps and movements. 118 illustrations.


Classical Ballet Technique

Classical Ballet Technique

Author: Gretchen Ward Warren

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 9780813009452

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Aimed at advanced dancers, this book discusses classical ballet's basic concepts, techniques, and movements


Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet

Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet

Author: Gail Grant

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 0486132862

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From adagio to voyage, over 800 steps, movements, poses, and concepts are fully defined. A pronunciation guide and cross-references to alternate names for similar steps and positions also included.


Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique

Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique

Author: Suki Schorer

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9780813029771

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When still a young dancer in the New York City Ballet, Suki Schorer was chosen by George Balanchine to lecture, demonstrate, and teach--he recognized in her that rare dancer who not only performs superbly but can also successfully pass along what she knows to others. In Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique, she commits to paper the fruit of her twenty-four-year collaboration with Balanchine in a close examination of his technique for teachers, scholars, and advanced students of the ballet. Schorer discusses the crucial work at the barre as well as center work, port de bras, pointework, jumps, partnering, and more. Her recollections of her own tutelage under Balanchine and her brilliant use of scores of his remarks about dancing and dancers lend both authority and intimacy to this extraordinary analysis of Balanchine's legacy to the future of dance. Abundantly illustrated throughout with instructional photographs featuring members of the New York City Ballet, this book will serve as an indispensable testament to Balanchine's ideas on technique and performance.


Vaganova Today

Vaganova Today

Author: Catherine E. Pawlick

Publisher:

Published: 2022-05-03

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780813068718

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Agrippina Vaganova (1879-1951) is revered as the visionary who first codified the Russian system of classical ballet training. The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, founded on impeccable technique and centuries of tradition, has a reputation for elite standards, and its graduates include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, and Diana Vishneva. Yet the Vaganova method has come under criticism in recent years. In this absorbing volume, Catherine Pawlick traces Vaganova's story from her early years as a ballet student in tsarist Russia to her career as a dancer with the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet to her work as a pedagogue and choreographer. Pawlick then goes beyond biography to address Vaganova's legacy today, offering the first-ever English translations of primary source materials and intriguing interviews with pedagogues and dancers from the Academy and the Mariinsky Ballet, including some who studied with Vaganova herself.