
Describes the years of training and hard work involved in becoming a ballet dancer and the dedication and expertise needed to dance the lead roles in famous ballets such as Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake.


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,...