The Classic Ballet
Kirstein, Lincoln / Stuart, Muriel / Balanchine, George
For soundness, for clarity, for succinctness, this manual of basic ballet is the best there is anywhere."-Edwin Denby, "The Nation" With a precision unparalleled in any other book of its kind, "The Classic Ballet" presents a lucid text, and nearly six hundred drawings describe and illustrate in minute detail the proper body position, balance point, movement, and attitude of each position and step in the basic classical repertory. As George Bal...