Explains, through photographs and text, the importance of mastering basic steps early and then building your strength slowly so that you can dance without risking injury. Includes lots of fascinating information on ballet companies, addresses, and a glossary to explain special ballet words.

A story that follows the everyday life of two girls, one a professional ballerina, the other a student, both of whom love ballet.

Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. A ballerina dancing today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and culture that followed. From ballet's origins in the...

Wearing magic ballet slippers, nine-year-old Delphie enters the Land of Enchantia and dances to release the Nutcracker and the Sugar Plum Fairy from an evil charm.

Fictionalizes the life of legendary ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, from his childhood in World War II Russia to his wild days in 1980s New York, dramatizing his early poverty, his sexuality, his fame, and his perfectionism.

What starts out as dancing school just for Dad quickly turns into a ballet class for Nancy's whole family. Fans of Fancy Nancy will delight in learning to plié, pirouette, and jeté with Nancy as she demonstrates all of the positions she's learned in ballet class.

Ten-year-old Isabelle finds a creative way to use her talent for fashion design to help her older sister Jade, who is performing the role of Clara in the Nutcracker ballet.

Tallulah loves the grace and elegance of ballet and can pirouette perfectly, but at dance camp struggles to learn tap.

When Cousin Henry gets all the attention in the grown-up musical in which they have roles, Angelina becomes jealous, but she demonstrates her fondness for him when a crisis occurs on opening night.