The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training & Technique - Softcover

Schlesinger, Sarah; Barringer, Janice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871272040 ISBN 13: 9780871272041

Publisher: Princeton Book Co Pub, 1998

Synopsis

A guide for instructors includes sample pointe classes, advice on preparing students for pointe work, sources for purchasing shoes, and an explanation of the proper fitting, preparation, and maintenance of pointe shoes

About this title

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.

Review:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton Book Co Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0871272040
• ISBN 13: 9780871272041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186