Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 192 pages
- Published by: Routledge
- Edition: 1st Edition June 21, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0415942918
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0415942911
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Book Dimensions:
10.8 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
- Weighs: 14.4 ounces
Product Description
Ballet: From the First Plié to extreme proficiency 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 basics 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 drawn to ballet training as a way of developing healthy musculature and bones, building an aesthetic awareness, and enhancing body image. Paskevska believes that-when performed correctly-ballet can provide a lifetime of artistic and physical pleasure. Shunning pyrotechnics and flashy technique, the book offers a solid grounding in the basics of ballet movement that will serve the student well, whether or not he or she chooses to continue training. Through her comprehensive examination of the how, why, and when of performing basic ballet techniques, Paskevska offers a concise and easy-to-follow regimen for everyone from the beginning to more advanced dancer.
For ballet students, their parents, and their teachers,
Ballet: from the First Plie to extreme proficiency is an invaluable first step toward enjoying dance and excelling as a dancer.
About The Author
Anna Paskevska teaches ballet at the School of Chicago Ballet. She previously served on the faculties of Indiana University and the University of Louisville, Kentucky. She is the author of Both Sides of the Mirror: The Science and Art of Ballet.
Reader ReviewsI have been living with ballet teachers and students for years now (my family) and I am a martial art teacher myself so this is a subject I learned and practiced myself. The writer is an exellent teacher and writer. The progression is precise and explained and something to look up to in todays teachers. She takes the body from the initial stages and builds it from the core with great care and inteligence and does so well with good exercises and lesson plans which hold a treasure of hints and pointers to good form, movement and tone. A wonderful buy for myself and I reccomend it to everyone who may benefit from the Russian ballet.
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