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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 that vary from the Russian to the French or Italian schools are also invaluable aids.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Marissa has always loved dancing, but lately, she feels clumsy and awkward when she dances, and she feels bigger and taller than the other girls. She doesn't even bother trying out for the Rose Fairy ballet, but someone else thinks Marissa has what it takes to play the Rose Fairy.
3) Ballet
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Introduces the history and basic concepts of ballet, including a description of common ballet steps, ballet clothes, and ballet companies.
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Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Tallulah takes ballet lessons and eagerly awaits her coveted tutu, which, she learns, she must work hard to earn.
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Gravitas
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Every Christmas The Nutcracker is performed in cities around the world. What does it take to produce this timeless ballet? Witness the passion of young dancers, from auditions to the final, triumphant performance.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 47 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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The film is made as a concert which is composed of unique fragments of dances from the famous performances of the great ballet dancers of the XX century, who brought fame to the Bolshoi theatre. The film depicts stories about their creative activities. One could see Ann Pavlova in the dance "The Dying swan, Sulamifj Messerer and Asaf Messerer in the dances specially staged for them, Marina Semenova in the Swan lake, Olga Lepeshinskaya and Peter Gusev,...
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With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were homeschooled and trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents' death in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student. Marie, warm and soft,...
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Illuminations
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (127 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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After causing an immediate sensation when it premiered at Sadler’s Wells in 1995, MATTHEW BOURNE’S SWAN LAKE returns with a fresh look for the 21st century. Still retaining the iconic elements of the original production loved by millions around the world, award-winning designers, Lez Brotherston and Paule Constable, alongside Bourne, have created an exciting re-imagining of the classic production. Thrilling, audacious, witty and emotive, this...
13) Dancer
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IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Bad boy ballet superstar Sergei Polunin was the youngest principal male dancer in the Royal Ballet until stardom pushed him to the brink of self-destruction.
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Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1995.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (60 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Centered around his 1995 staging of Voluntaries, one of the choreographer’s most beautiful and moving ballets, this documentary presents an eye opening peek into the creative process of dance. “I have always wanted to be free,” says Tetley in this portrait, explaining why he never had an exclusive association with one particular dance company. As a result he led an extremely varied life in dance, working with many superior talents in many places,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Delighted to be asked by Miss Bird to help during a little dancers' class, an exuberant Mia observes that the little ballerinas in her charge have difficulties performing steps, a challenge that prompts Mia to devise a clever solution.
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (15 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Stan Brakhage called Maya Deren “the mother of us all.” The history of avant-garde film is unthinkable without her.
17) The Red Shoes
Publisher
Illuminations
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Filmed at Sadler’s Wells in 2019, Matthew Bourne’s THE RED SHOES is a triumphant adaptation of the legendary 1948 feature film by Micheal Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The double Olivier Award-winning show is Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of obsession, possession, and one girl’s dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. Victoria Page, played by Ashley Shaw who won a National Dance Award for her performance, lives to dance, but her ambitions...
18) Really Love
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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Set in contemporary Washington D.C., a rising black painter strives to break into the competitive art world, while balancing a bittersweet romance he never expected.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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RESTLESS CREATURE: WENDY WHELAN offers an intimate portrait of prima ballerina Wendy Whelan as she prepares to leave New York City Ballet after a record-setting three decades with the company. One of the modern era’s most acclaimed dancers, Whelan was a principal ballerina for NYCB and, over the course of her celebrated career, danced numerous ballets by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, as well as new works by more modern standout choreographers...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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Relive the music, fashion, and spirit of the 80s via the incredible, behind-the-scenes saga of the rise, fall, and comeback of chart-topping New Wave legends Spandau Ballet.
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