The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training and Technique - Softcover

Barringer, Janice; Schlesinger, Sarah

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9780871271501: The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training and Technique

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871271508 ISBN 13: 9780871271501

Publisher: Princeton Book Company, 1991

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Studies the development of pointe shoes and the technique of pointe dancing, an artistic innovation that allowed female dancers to carry ballet to new heights of virtuosity.

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About the Author:

Janice Barringer teaches, choreographs and lectures in the United States, Canada and China and writes for Pointe and American Dancer magazines. She has been spotlighted in the PBS Dance in America series, and she has been on the faculty of the American Dance Centre, Ballet Hispanico, Harkness House and Steps on Broadway. Sarah Schlesinger, former owner of Capezio Dance Theatre Shops in Maryland and Delaware, has extensive experience fitting pointe shoes and solving pointe shoerelated problems. She is chair at the graduate musical theatre writing program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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""Addresses nearly every question that you could think to ask about pointe shoes."

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