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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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The girls in Miss Lina's ballet class are surprised to learn that a boy will be performing in the end of the year show with them, and none of the students, including the new boy, are sure how they feel about that.
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Artistic. athletic. attainable: these three words represent the promise of Ballet Beautiful, a transformative approach to reshaping your body so that it becomes slender, long, and lean--with the strength and grace of a ballerina. Founder Mary Helen Bowers has used this method to help women lose weight, turn fat into lean muscle, and re-contour their bodies to achieve the regal posture, strength, and elegance of a ballerina. Helps you: achieve the...
4) Ballet
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This vintage book is a fascinating treatise on ballet. It delves into the colourful history of ballet in ancient societies and explores its development throughout the ages from the dances of the Egyptians to modern opera. "The History Of Dance - Ballet" is highly recommended for those with an interest in the evolution of the dance and would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature
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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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Los escritos sobre danza de Isadora Duncan constituyen una de las más brillantes reflexiones de una coreógrafa sobre su trabajo. Su valor se acrecienta si tenemos en cuenta que fue precisamente Duncan quien, con mayor consciencia y decisión que Loie Fuller o Ruth St. Denis, convirtió la danza libre, no basada en los códigos de ballet, en un arte. El arte de la danza, tal como fue definido y defendido por Duncan, nació al mismo tiempo que el...
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In the current dance scene, performers contend with choreography that involves extreme dance, multiple techniques, and acrobatic moves, exemplified in the popular reality television show, "So You Think You Can Dance." The dilemma for aspiring professionals is that dance class no longer provides sufficient preparation for performing at this level. Dancers who want to achieve their best, avoid injury, and perform at their peak will welcome the insight...
9) Pas de Deux
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Joyce had loved Kenneth since she was little more than a baby. So when they were able to push up their wedding to allow her to accept a place in a prestigious ballet program, she was sure that life was going to be nothing less than wonderful forever. Finalizing her dream of becoming a dancer and marriage to Kenneth-what more could she ever want?
Then came the accident that threatened Joyce's happiness. Lost in her own grief, Joyce could see Kenneth...
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This is the story of the National Ballet of Canada - the people, the determination, and how at sixty it is still creating new work while still representing the classics. Passion to Dance is the story of the National Ballet of Canada - the people who dreamt the company into existence, the determination needed to keep it afloat, the bumps on the road to its success, and above all, its passion for dance as a living, evolving art form. From catch-as-catch-can...
11) Ballet
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From its early inception at the French court to modern-day developments and interpretations, ballet has long had a popular following. Packed full of essential information, this pocket-sized handbook explores the history, performers, composers and music, highlighting the very best ballets and the stand-out tracks that should feature in the collection of any aficionado. Classic FM's Handy Guides are a fun and informative set of introductions to standout...
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Cecchetti (1850-1928) performed and taught in Russia and with Diaghilev's troupe. Assisted by of one of Cecchetti's star pupils, Stanislas Idzikowski, Cyril Beaumont codified Cecchetti's program for this book, which includes a numbered series of instructions for each exercise in addition to numerous illustrations. 109 black-and-white illustrations.
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Este es un proyecto de investigación creación en el interior del proyecto curricular Arte Danzario de la Facultad de Artes ASAB, de la Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. La propuesta es generar un diálogo entre nuestra tradición cultural y el ballet, que es una práctica centenaria y eurocentrada, con unos códigos de movimiento y relaciones en el tiempo y el espacio que, aunque resultan muy relevantes en la formación de bailarines...
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Although the stars of Russian ballet Anna Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina possessed a national manner of dancing, there was no truly Russian school of dancing until the 1930s. The development of this school was largely due to Mme. Vaganova (1879–1951), not only a great dancer but also the teacher of Galina Ulanova and many others and an unsurpassed theoretician. The principles of Vaganova's system are presented in this well-known book. Mme. Vaganova's...
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Zonderkidz
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[2018]
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English
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Candace Center Stage , written by Candace Cameron Bure, New York Times bestselling author and star of the hit TV series Full House and Fuller House , tells the story of a little girl who loves to dance. But when her mother signs her up for ballet lessons, Candace quickly realizes she's no ballerina. As she moves and grooves across the floor, she topples all the ballerinas in her path. Her teacher, Miss Grace, tries to teach her proper ballet positions,...
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Look Before You Leap guides parents towards helping their children to achieve their greatest success in dance. As we pull back the curtain on the dance industry, it has never been more important for parents and students to become as informed as possible to avoid the damage that is being done to children through the world-wide epidemics of extreme training, over-training, unqualified teachers and the global sexualization of dance students.
A safe...
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Ballet is for some a passion, their love or obsession-a way of making a living perhaps, For others it is a pleasant evening out and for some it is what their hard-earned money is spent on for children to attend ballet classes,
This book attempts to draw together the interesting facts-facts which are not widely known-and answers questions which might not have even been thought of, There is a medical perspective (the author is a surgeon) but with help...
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El ballet dinámico, creado por el maestro Sergio Pablo Vicencio, nació ante la necesidad de rescatar a jóvenes aspirantes al ballet, que por su edad, ya no tenían cabida en la metodología tradicional. Tras años de investigacionesy estudios, Vicencio, logró diseñar un nuevo enfoque metodológico sustentado en la ciencia del ballet clásico académico y el aporte de la ciencia dinámica. A partir de la integración de la ciencia del movimiento...
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R. J. Stove's A Student's Guide to Music History is a concise account, written for the intelligent lay reader, of classical music's development from the early Middle Ages onwards. Beginning with a discussion of Hildegard von Bingen, a twelfth-century German nun and composer, and the origins of plainchant, Stove's narrative recounts the rise (and ever-increasing complexity) of harmony during the medieval world, the differences between secular and...
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