Orem Library

Jamie and her ballet class are preparing for their first recital, and their teacher has invited Amy and Martin, two professional ballet dancers, to help.

Presents an oral history of the Ballets Russes from the point of view of its many surviving performers. Dancers discuss working with George Balanchine. Includes performance footage.

Presents an overview of pointe technique and pointe shoes, with basics of pointe readiness, current research on best design for pointe shoes, materials, suppliers, and information on pointe-related injuries and remedies.

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...

Poetry and illustrations celebrate the beauty and grace of young African-American ballerinas.

Etoiles celebrates the legacy of the famed Paris Opera Ballet by weaving together rehersals and tour snapshots of classical ballets as well as contemporary works. Interviews with some of the dancers reveal their perspectives on how and why they endure the emotional and physical hardships of being on stage.

Introduces the basics of ballet dancing, including stretching exercises, ballet positions, ballet terms, and good practice habits.

Discover more than 70 of the most famous ballet dances, from The Nutcracker and Swan Lake to The Rite of Spring. Learn the stories behind renowned companies such as The Royal Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet. Explore the lives and achievements of dancers across the centuries, such as Margot Fonteyn, Carlos Acosta, and Darcey Bussell. Meet composers and choreographers, from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to Matthew Bourne. From its origins at court and the...

In this award-winning how-to-ballet memoir, you'll deep dive into ballet posture while standing on both feet, tiptoes, and one leg. Enjoy ballerina Konora's sass and wisdom as she shares insights learned along the way. Dance Stance debuts the third series by the mother-daughter team Once Upon a Dance.

Brooklyn Gartner eats, sleeps, and breathes ballet. But after her mom gets remarried and moves them to Texas, everything changes. Thanks to her star football player stepbrother, her family is football obsessed. And thanks to a new conditioning program, the middle school football team starts to take classes at her dance studio--the only place Brooklyn felt like she belonged. She has a chance to escape if she can get into her dream high school, The...