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A collection of essays and memoirs by Keith R. Knox.

Gives teachers and students supplemental materials to reinforce classroom work as students learn ballet.

Over 700 Ballet terms demonstrated on video plus an interactive history of ballet and advice from ballet stars around the world

Illustrated accompanying text for the video.

Definitions and pronunciations of technical dance terms, browsable by first letter.

Houses over 3,500 links to ballet resources all over the Internet. Subcategories include companies, schools, summer programs, and international links.

Includes link categories such as companies, education and research, studying dance, merchandise, and ticket outlets.

Online gallery showcasing many of Degas' ballet paintings. Also includes a brief description of art during the period.

Photographer Guillaume Dion's website including over 70 ballet photos of professional dancers. Most are taken during rehearsals.

Includes over 700 clear, color ballet photographs from famous ballets such as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, and Coppelia.

Over 20 articles taking readers through a history of classical Russian ballet.

Over 65 articles about ballets, their choreographers, composers, and history. Some topics include George Balanchine, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, Aaron Copland, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Butterfly, Dracula, Serenade, Swan Lake.

Article covering ballet, dance history and recommended books.

Article pertaining to balancing during pirouettes, jumps, and basic physics vocabulary.

Pointe shoes including history, darning and shoe anatomy.

Interactive ballet CD including over 325 dance steps, barre and center technique, all performed by professional ballet dancers.

Over 30 ballet song downloads from The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Coppelia, and Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Essays on history, companies, and prominent names.

Article by Morton N. Cohen on this ballet production. Page from the English National Ballet.

170 terms from the book "Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet," Dover Publications.

Documentation of the collaboration between choreographer Hans Kresnik and his German dance company, and artist Gottfried Helnwein, including Macbeth, Oedipus, Pasolini, Marat and Sade.

Database of ballet information including how-tos, free combinations, barre and center work, ballet basics, shoe guide, and a section for teachers.

A site that has the basics of ballet and some history, and includes some refrence to other dance forms.

Pointe shoe in history and its construction.

A detailed history of the ballet company, including ballet origins in Russia from Catherine II to Jules Perrot.

Directory of links to articles on ballets including Coppelia, Giselle, Les Sylphides, Le Sylphide and The Nutcracker.

Online text of 8 levels of ballet syllabi beginning at age 6.

Reference article including directions to construct a tutu modeled on the long style of the 19th century, and the varying lengths of later trends.

A guide to the pointe shoe including, fittings, history, sewing and preparation.

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