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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 6
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Second-grade best friends Ivy and Bean beg for ballet lessons, then, when they are cast as squids in their first recital, scheme to find a way out of what seems to be boring, hard, and potentially embarrassing.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Dreaming of becoming a professional ballerina, Lucy aspires to gain acceptance into an exclusive ballet academy where she hopes to work with teachers and fellow dancers before dancing at the side of her idol in a production of "The Nutcracker".
6) Ballet
Author
Language
English
Description
An introduction to ballet, discussing its history, costumes, steps, performances, and other aspects.
11) My ballet book
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the world of ballet and presents its notable stories, dancers, techniques, and routines.
12) Black swan
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
An insecure New York City ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake, but slowly loses her grip on sanity when she thinks a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In this engaging history of dance, readers are introduced to the major performers, choreographers, and composers who influenced the development of ballet. Beginning with the birth of the art in the sixteenth-century French court of Catherine d' Medici, this informative text traces ballet as it evolved in Europe and Russia, and subsequently in England and then the United States. Included are details about the creation of such classics as Giselle, Swan...
15) Swan Lake
Language
English
Formats
Description
When it premiered at Sadler's Wells in 1995, Matthew Bourne's triumphant modern re-interpretation of SWAN LAKE turned tradition upside down, taking the dance world by storm. Now firmly crowned as a modern day classic, this iconic production is perhaps best-known for replacing the traditional female corps de ballet with a menacing male ensemble. Matthew Bourne blends dance, humor and spectacle with extravagant.
16) Tallulah's tutu
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 1
Publisher
Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tallulah takes ballet lessons and eagerly awaits her coveted tutu, which, she learns, she must work hard to earn.
17) John's turn
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Every Friday at school there's an assembly with announcements and maybe a guest. Then one of the kids gets to do something for the whole school. A performance. Today it's John's turn; what will he do?
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