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Some really good ballet movies (and books)

posted 15 years ago by mmyy
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Some really good ballet movies (if you care) Red Shoes, Turning Point, Center Stage 1, and strangely enough Hans Christian Anderson. It's a kids movie with Danny Kaye but in it he falls in love with this ballet Dancer and there are some incredible ballet dance sequences choreographed by Roland Petite.

Some good ballet books, Dancing on My Grave, A Dance of Sisters, the Melting Season--Gwendolyn, the Graceful Pig is a really cute, new ballet picture book.

Any others?

[–] gabby_jhill 15 years ago

mao's last dancer is a fantastic book...can't think of any others at the moment

[–] LumiereFactory 15 years ago

Dancer by Lorri Hewett and Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You

Fritzi: Oh save the speech, rummy. She's *beep* I'm ready, and the goddamn show must go on.

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[–] tishtash03 13 years ago

some other good books are 'the first step', 'Samantha on stage' and although more about dancing and theater training 'ballet shoes' and 'dancing shoes'