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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807374803321

Autore

Paskevska Anna

Titolo

Ballet : from the first plie to mastery : an eight-year course / / Anna Paskevska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-203-46231-9

1-283-96822-3

1-136-61298-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

792.8/071

Soggetti

Ballet dancing - Study and teaching

Ballet dancing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes discography.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and discography.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Use and benefits of classical training -- pt. 2. Lessons.

Sommario/riassunto

Ballet: From the First Pli; to Mastery  is designed as a complement to a beginning student's ballet training. The book opens with a brief description of the benefits of ballet training to young dancers, and then introduces fundamentals and precepts of the technique.  Clear photographs show exactly how to execute each movement. Then an eight-year course is presented, taking the student from age 5 or 6 through the teen years, outlining exactly what is to be taught and how it is to be performed.  A glossary, bibliography, and discography close the book. Young girls-and increasingly boys-are d