The Classic Ballet: Basic Technique and Terminology

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The late co-founder of the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet offers a broad introduction to the history, techniques, movements, and nomenclature of ballet in a volume that includes nearly six hundred drawings illuminating proper body position, balance point, movement, and attitude of every step in the classical repertory. Repri

Lincoln Kirstein founded the School of American Ballet in 1934 with George Balanchine, and in 1948 the two men established the New York City Ballet, for which Kirstein served as general director until l989. He wrote more than five hundred books, articles, and monographs on the arts, as well as criticism, poetry, novels, and a number of historical and autobiographical works. He died in 1996. Muriel Stuart, the last protegee of Anna Pavlova, was an instructor at the School of American Ballet for thirty-five years.