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Description
As the only African American soloist dancing with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre, Misty Copeland has made history. But when she first placed her hands on the barre at an after-school community center, no one expected the undersized, anxious thirteen-year-old to become a groundbreaking ballerina.
2) John's turn
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Formats
Description
Every Friday at school there's an assembly with announcements and maybe a guest. Then one of the kids gets to do something for the whole school. A performance. Today it's John's turn; what will he do?
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"After narrowing down hundreds of Broadway hopefuls, Zach leads a select group of dancers on the tryout of their lives. In an audition twist, Zach asks each performer personal and intimate questions--with results that powerfully affect not only the young performers, but the hardened stage veteran as well"--Container.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Formats
Description
Silent movies are giving way to talking pictures, and a hoofer-turned-matinee idol is caught in that bumpy transition, as are his buddy, prospective ladylove, and shrewish costar. Rediscover the musical masterpiece in dazzling, restored high definition, featuring an all-new documentary special feature that salutes not just the all-time favorite, but also the musical legacy of its producer, songwriter Arthur Freed.
8) Billy Elliot
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Presents the story of a remarkable pioneer, who was the first African American prima ballerina in the Metropolitan Opera, in a time when racial segregation was widespread in the United States.
10) Isadora
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
viii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Using the scaffolding of Isadora Duncan's life and ... spirit, Amelia Gray delivers an incredibly imaginative portrait of the artist. In 1913, the restless world sat on the brink of unimaginable suffering. But for one woman, the darkness of a new era had already made itself at home. Isadora Duncan would come to be known as the mother of modern dance, but in the spring of 1913 she was a grieving mother, after a freak accident in Paris resulted in...
11) Polina
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young girl studies classical ballet. As a young woman she turns to modern dance and choreography.
Author
Description
New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they’d have together: a quiet house in the suburbs, Marion staying home to raise their future children. But instead, Marion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes—the glamorous precision-dancing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
"The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. Misty Copeland became the first African American Female Principal Dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, but how did she get there?"--
Author
Series
Tanya series volume 7
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 25 cm.
Description
Tanya wants to dance in toe shoes the way her sister does.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1028
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
When their dance troupe disbands, Bubbles leaves for a career in burlesque while Judy hopes to be a ballerina.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears - imperfection, failure, loneliness - she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
In 2015, Misty Copeland was named principal ballerina of the American Ballet Theatre, the first African American to earn the title in the ballet companys history. She has danced all over the country, on Broadway, and on television, but she had to break many barriers to do it, including racism and poverty.
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm
Description
"A stunning celebration of movement and dance in hundreds of breathtaking photographs of more than 70 dancers from American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Martha Graham Dance Company, Boston Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, the Royal Ballet, and many more. The Art of Movement is an exquisitely designed, beautifully produced book that captures the movement, flow, energy, and grace of many of the most accomplished...
19) Five dances
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When an 18-year-old from Kansas joins a small modern dance company in New York City he is initiated into the life of a New York dancer.
Publisher
Hit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (41 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Angelina Ballerina tells the timeless tales of a remarkable little mouse who dreams of becoming a prima ballerina. Headstrong, passionate, and feisty she is a character to whom children of all ages will relate.
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