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Author
Publisher
Faber
Pub. Date
2011
Description
'The Everyday Dancer' is an honest account of the business of dancing from a writer with first hand experience of the profession. Structured around the daily schedule, it goes behind the velvet curtain, the gilt and the glamour to uncover the everyday realities of a career in dance.
7) Ballet
Author
Series
Publisher
Usborne
Pub. Date
2006
Description
This non-fiction series aims to encourage children to access the wonder of the world around them. The easy-to-read texts have been specially written with the help of a reading expert.
8) Showtime
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Maddy has to decide whether dancing is her dream in life as the end-of-term summer show approaches.
10) Girl on pointe
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Autobiography from Youtube dancer celebrity, and Dance Moms star, Chloe Lukasiak.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2012
Description
More people enjoy dance today than ever before. It ranges from classical ballet to avant-garde modern dance. Susan Au's text covers the whole subject, describing performers of the past as well as exploring in detail the dance world of today.
Author
Series
Shoes volume 1
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2017
Description
I wonder . . . if other girls had to be one of us, which of us they'd choose to be?' Pauline longs to be an actress. Petrova is happiest playing with cars and engines. And if she could . . . Posy would dance all day! But when their benefactor Great-Uncle Matthew disappears, the Fossil girls share a future of a dazzling life on stage, where their dreams and fears will soon come true . . .
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Read and follow Jamie as she goes to her first ballet lesson. Compiled in association with literacy experts and ideal for guided reading in the Literacy Hour, 'DK Readers' effectively blend photography and age-appropriate text to build a child's reading confidence.
Author
Series
Magic Ballerina volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2012
Description
The first of a sparkly new series for all young girls who dream of being a ballerina, or simply love to dance? Delphie?s greatest dream is to become a ballerina, and she can't quite believe it when she is invited to join the new ballet school. But there's more to Madame Zarakova's than it at first seems and with the help of some very special ballet shoes, Delphie finds herself spinning into a whole new world?.
15) Nijinsky
Author
Publisher
Profile Books
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Nijinsky's story has lost none of its power to shock, fascinate and move. Adored and reviled in his lifetime, his phenomenal talent was shadowed by schizophrenia and an intense but destructive relationship with his lover, Diaghilev. In the first biography for 40 years, Lucy Moore examines a career defined by two forces - inspired performance and an equally headline-grabbing talent for controversy.
Author
Series
Isadora Moon volume 4
Description
Pink Rabbit gets the chance to perform when Isadora goes on a class trip to see a ballet.
Author
Description
Using many never-before-seen papers and letters and unprecedented interviews with dancers, family, friends and lovers, Julie Kavanagh tells how the little boy who was born on a train in Siberia at the beginning of World War II grew up to become one of the greatest male ballet stars ever.