Footnotes: Dancing Ballets

By Frank Augustyn and Shelley Tanaka

Book Overview

A behind-the-scenes look at seven classic ballets -- La Sylphide, Giselle, Copelia, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet. From ballet's beginnings in the royal courts of seventeenth-century France to contemporary dancers, instructors, choreographers, costume designers and make-up artists. Includes anecdotes about ballet's greatest stars -- including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Margot Fonteyn, and Paloma Herrera."

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761323236
• ISBN13: 9780761323235
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Millbrook Press
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher