Reference Ballet Dance

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• - Over 20 black and white images of ballet dancers in performances.
  
• - Includes link categories such as companies, education and research, studying dance, merchandise, and ticket outlets.
  
• - Houses over 3,500 links to ballet resources all over the Internet. Subcategories include companies, schools, summer programs, and international links.
  
• - Pointe shoe in history and its construction.
  
• - Definitions and pronunciations of technical dance terms, browsable by first letter.
  
• - Documentation of the collaboration between choreographer Hans Kresnik and his German dance company, and artist Gottfried Helnwein, including Macbeth, Oedipus, Pasolini, Marat and Sade.
  
• - A collection of essays and memoirs by Keith R. Knox.
  
• - Bibliography categorized by dancers, photography, children's books, history and scenarios.
  
• - Essays on history, companies, and prominent names.
  
• - Book on America's first public school for ballet students, Ballet Tech.
  
• - Photographer Guillaume Dion's website including over 70 ballet photos of professional dancers. Most are taken during rehearsals.
  
• - Learn more about ballet by downloading these computer-generated simulations of steps and positions.
  
• - Interactive ballet CD including over 325 dance steps, barre and center technique, all performed by professional ballet dancers.
  
• - Online gallery showcasing many of Degas' ballet paintings. Also includes a brief description of art during the period.
  
• - Over 30 ballet song downloads from The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Coppelia, and Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
  
• - A site that has the basics of ballet and some history, and includes some refrence to other dance forms.
  
• - Article pertaining to balancing during pirouettes, jumps, and basic physics vocabulary.
  
• - A guide to the pointe shoe including, fittings, history, sewing and preparation.
  
• - Article by Morton N. Cohen on this ballet production.
  
• - Database of ballet information including how-tos, free combinations, barre and center work, ballet basics, shoe guide, and a section for teachers.
  
• - The website of renowned ballet photographer Keith Money.
  
• - Gives teachers and students supplemental materials to reinforce classroom work as students learn ballet.
  
• - Illustrated accompanying text for the video.
  
• - Over 700 Ballet terms demonstrated on video plus an interactive history of ballet and advice from ballet stars around the world
  
• - Pointe shoes including history, darning and shoe anatomy.
  
• - Includes over 700 clear, color ballet photographs from famous ballets such as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, and Coppelia.
  
• - For beginning ballet students on the basics of stretching and gaining flexibility. This page includes how to choose music to stretch to, breathing tips, and how to successfully move through each stretching exercise.
  
• - Complete and thorough articles covering topics such as Cecchetti, pointe shoe history, Pilates, and ballet physics. Most written by Diane Fothergill.
  
• - Online text of 8 Cecchetti ballet levels beginning at age 6.
  
• - Ballets include Coppelia, Giselle, Les Sylphides, Le Sylphide, and The Nutcracker.
  
• - Over 20 articles taking readers through a history of classical Russian ballet.
  
• - Article covering ballet, dance history and recommended books.
  
• - 170 terms from the book "Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet," Dover Publications.