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1) 100 Lessons in Classical Ballet by Vera Kostrovitskaya
2) 101 Stories of the Great Ballets by George Balanchine and Francis Mason
3) A Dancers World: An Introduction for Parents and Students by Margot Fonteyn
4) A Dictionary of Ballet Terms by Leo Kersle and Janet Sinclair
5) A Manual of Theory & Practice of Classical Theatrical Dancing (Methode Cecchetti) by Cyril Beaumont and Stanislas Idzikowski
6) A Young Dancers Apprenticeship: On Tour with the Moscow City Ballet by Olympia Dowd
7) A Young Persons Guide to the Ballet by Noel Streatfeild
8) Alphabet of Classical Dance by Nadezhda Bazarova and Varvara Mey
9) American Ballet Theater a 25-year retrospective by Elizabeth Kaye
10) American Indian Ballerinas by Lili Cockerille Livingston
11) An Elementary Treastise Upon the Theory and Practice of the Art Of Dancing. by Carlo Blasis
12) Angelina Ballerina by Helen Craig and Katherine Holabird
13) Arabesques by Alan Storey
14) Balanchine by Bernard Taper
15) Balanchines New Complete Stories of the Great Ballets by George Balanchine
16) Ballerina - The Art of Women in Classical Ballet by Mary Clarke and Clement Crisp
17) Ballet by Kate Castle
18) ballet & modern dance by Susan Au
19) Ballet - an Illustrated History by Mary Clarke and Clement Crisp
20) Ballet and Dance by Linda Doeser
21) Ballet and Modern Dance (with contributions by leading choreographers dancers and critics) by Kirstein, Bejart, Lanchberry, others
22) Ballet Art: From the Renaissance to the Present by Mary Clarke and Clement Crisp
23) Ballet Basics by Sandra Hammond
24) Ballet Body Book by Leigh Wells ed. by Jessica Deutsch
25) Ballet for Beginners by Marie-Laure Medova
26) Ballet Here and Now by Clive Barnes, et al. Edited by Susan Lester
27) Ballet in Action by Walter Terry and Paul Himmel
28) Ballet in Moscow Today (unknown publication. Date, possibly late 1950's early 1960's ?) by Helene Bellew
29) Ballet Music by Humphrey Searle
30) Ballet Mystique: Behind the Glamour of the Ballet Russe by George Zoritch ed. by Renee Renouf
31) Ballet Steps - Practice to Performance by Antony Dufort
32) Ballet: Beyond the Basics by Sandra Hammond
33) Ballet: First Steps to First Night, A Three-Dimensional Book by Craig Dodd and Shirley Soar
34) Ballet: From the First Plie to Mastery An Eight Year Course by Anna Paskevska
35) Baryshnikov In Russia by Nina Alovert
36) Basic Ballet - The Steps Defined by Joyce Mackie
37) Basic Principles of Classical Ballet - Russian Ballet Technique by Agrippina Vaganova
38) Beginning Ballet Second Edition by Joan Lawson
39) Buckle at the Ballet by Richard Buckle
40) Classes in Classical Ballet by Asaf Messerer
41) Classical Ballet Technique by Gretchen Warren
42) Classical Ballet: The Flow of Movement by Tamara Karsavina
43) Classical Dance: A Complete Manual of the Cecchetti Method, Vol 2 by Grazioso Cecchetti ed. by Flavia Pappacena
44) Classical Dance: The Balletgoers Guide to Technique and Performance by Jane Robbins
45) Come dance with me - a memoir 1896-1956 by Ninette deValois
46) Complete Book of Ballets by Cyril Beaumont
47) Coppelia: The Story of the Ballet by Linda Jennings
48) Dance - The Art of Production by Joan Schlaich and Betty DuPont
49) Dance and Music: A Guide to Dance Accompaniment for Musicians and Dance Teachers by Harriet Cavalli
50) Dance as a Theater Art - Source Readings in Dance History from 1851 to the Present by Selma Jean Cohen
51) Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet by Lynn Garafola with Eric Foner et al
52) Dance in New York by Ellen Jacob and Christopher Jonas
53) Dance Injuries - their Prevention and Care by Daniel Arnheim
54) Dance Technique and Injury Prevention by Justin Howse and Shirley Hancock
55) Dance to the Piper by Agnes De Mille
56) Dance with Demons the Life of Jerome Robbins by Greg Lawrence
57) Dances of England and France from 1450 to 1600 by Mabel Dolmetsch
58) Dancing for Diaghilev - The Memoirs of Lydia Sokolova by Lydia Sokolova ed. by Richard Buckle
59) Dancing On My Grave by Gelsey Kirkland with Greg Lawrence
60) Danseur: The Male in Ballet by Richard Philp and Mary Whitney
61) Days with Ulanova an Intimate Portrait of the Legendary Russian Ballerina by Albert Kahn
62) Degas and the dance by Jill DeVonyar and Richard Kendall
63) Diaghilevs Ballet Russes Paper Dolls in Full color by Tom Tierney
64) Distant Dances by Sono Osato
65) Favorite Stories of the Ballet by James Gorden illust. By Victor Ambrus
66) First Steps in Ballet: Basic Exercises at the Barre by Thalia Maria with Lee Wyndham
67) Fonteyn and Nureyev by Alexander Bland
68) Footnotes Dancing the Worlds Best-Loved Ballets by Frank Augustyn and Shelly Tanaka
69) From Russia With Love: costumes for the Ballets Russes 1909-1933 by National Gallery of Australia
70) George Balanchine Ballet Master by Richard Buckle and John Taras
71) Getting Closer: A Dancers Perspective by Rosalie O'Connor
72) Getting Started in Ballet by Anna Paskevska
73) Henning Kronstam: Portrait of a Danish Dancer by Alexandra Tamalonis
74) Historical Dances - 12th to 19th Century by Muselene Wood
75) Holding On to the Air by Suzanne Farrell with Toni Bentley
76) How to Dance Forever: Surviving Against the Odds by Daniel Nagrin
77) How to Dress Dancers: Costuming Techniques for Dance by Mary Kent Harrison
78) I Can Dance by Brian Bullard and David Charlsen
79) I, Maya Plisetskaya by Maya Plisetskaya
80) Imagine That - its Modern Dance by Stephanie Sorrine
81) Labanotation - The System for Recording Movement by Ann Hutchison
82) Lifar on Classical Ballet by Serge Lifar
83) Lili at Ballet by Rachel Isadora
84) Ma Vie - from Kiev to Kiev by Serge Lifar
85) Making a Ballet by Mary Clarke and Clement Crisp
86) Maria Tallchief - Americas Prima Ballerina by Maria Tallchief with Larry Kaplan
87) Memoirs of a Dancer: Shadows, Dreams, Memories by Orest Sergievsky
88) Modern Ballet by John Percival
89) My Ballet Diary by Rachel Isadora
90) Nijinsky by Romola Nijinsky
91) Noelle of the Nutcracker by Pamela Jane
92) Nureyev - an autobiography with pictures by Rudolph Nureyev
93) Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann trans. Ralph Manheim
94) Nutcracker by E.T.A Hoffmann illust. By Roberto Innocenti
95) Once a Dancer by Allegra Kent
96) Orchesography by Thoinot Arbeau
97) Pacific Northwest Ballet at 25 "Let's Go On" by Wayne Johnson
98) Page by Page by Ruth Page ed. By Andrew M. Wentink
99) Pas de Deux - the Art of Partnering by Anton Dolan
100) Pas de Deux: A textbook on partnering by Nickolai Serebrennikov and Marin Horosko
101) Perpetual Motion - the public and private life of Rudolf Nureyev by Otis Stuart
102) Petrouchka: The Story of the Ballet by Vivian Werner (retold by)
103) Pre-Classical Dance Forms by Lois Horst
104) Prodigal Son by Edward Villella with Larry Kaplan
105) Raoul Gelabert's Anatomy for the Dancer with exercises to improve technique and prevent injuries as told to William Como by William Como
106) Royal Academy of Dancing - Dictionary of Classical Ballet Terminology by Rhonda Rhyman
107) S. Hurok Presents - A Memoir of the Dance World by S. Hurok
108) Second Steps in Ballet: Basic Center Exercises by Thalia Maria
109) Soviet Ballet by Juri Slonimsky
110) Step by Step Ballet Class: An illustrated guide to the official ballet syllabus by Royal Academy of Dancing (ENG)
111) Stories of the Ballets - Swan Lake by Ann Nugent
112) Stretching by Bob Anderson
113) Studies in Ballet by William Chappell
114) Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique by Suki Schorer with Russell Lee
115) Swan Lake by Nancy Ellison retold by Amy Ephron
116) Teaching Classical Ballet by John White
117) Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet by Gail Grant
118) The Art of Teaching Ballet: Ten Twentieth-Century Masters by Gretchen Warren
119) The Authorized Bolshoi Ballet Book of Spartacus by Yuri Grigorovich and Victor V. Vanslow
120) The Ballet Book: Learning and Appreciating the Secrets of Dance by Nancy Ellison and Hanna Rubin
121) The Ballet Book: The Young Performers Guide to Classical Dance by Deborah Bowes, The National Ballet School
122) The Ballet Companion: A popular guide for the ballet goer by Walter Terry
123) The Ballet Lovers Pocket Book by Kay Ambrose and Celia Franca
124) The Ballet Student Primer by Kay Ambrose and Celia Franca
125) The Best Book of Ballet by Angela Wilkes
126) The Bolshoi - Opera and Ballet at the Greatest Theater in Russia by Boris Pokrovsky and Yuri Grigorovich
127) The Bolshoi Ballet by Yuri Slonimsky
128) The Book of Ballet by James Audsley
129) The Book of the Dance by Lincoln Kirstein
130) The Borzoi Book of Ballet by Grace Robert
131) The Classic Ballet - Basic Technique and Terminology by Lincoln Kirstein
132) The Dancers Body Book by Allegra Kent with James and Constance Camner
133) The Dancers Book of Health by L. M. Vincent M.D.
134) The Dancers Foot Book: A complete guide to foot Care by Terry Spilken
135) The Firebird by Jane Yolen (retold by)
136) The Golden Age of Costume and Set Design for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo: 1938 to 1944 by Cincinatti Art Museum, et al
137) The Illustrated Book of Ballet Stories by Barbera Newman
138) The Joffrey Ballet School's Ballet-Fit by Dena Simone Moss and Allison Kyle Leopold
139) The Kingfisher Treasury of Ballet Stories by Caroline Plaisted (et al)
140) The New York City Ballet Workout by Peter Martins
141) The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann illust. Julie Paschkis
142) The Nutcracker Ballet by Jack Anderson
143) The Pointe Book, Revised Edition by Janice Barringer and Sarah Schlesinger
144) The Royal Ballet - The First Fifty Years by Alexander Bland
145) The Royal Book of Ballet by Shirley Goulden illust. By Maraja
146) The Sadler's Wells Theater Ballet by Hugh Fisher
147) The Sleeping Beauty by Jean Richardson illust. By Francesca Crespi
148) The Theory and Practice of Allegro in Classical Ballet by Maragret Cradke and Cyril Beaumont
149) The Victor Book of Ballets and Ballet Music by Robert Lawrence
150) The World of Ballet by Oleg Kerensky
151) The World of Ballet and Dance by Fernau Hall
152) The World of Diaghilev by John Percival
153) The Young Dancer: In Association with the Royal Ballet School by Darcy Bussell with Patricia Linton
154) The Young Persons Guide to the Ballet by Anita Ganeri
155) Theater Street - the Reminiscences of Tamara Karasavina by Tamara Karsavina
156) Tributes Celebrating Fifty Years of New York City Ballet by Christopher Ramsey
157) Understanding Ballet - from Classroom to Stage by John Gregory
158) Winter Season: A Dancers Journal by Toni Bentley
159) Zigzag Factfinders Ballet and Dance by Maggie Tucker
 
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