Information
on the book,
"100 Lessons in
Classical Ballet"
by Vera S. Kostrovitskaya
translated by Oleg Briansky
The 400 page softcover book contains one hundred lessons for an
eight
year course of study in ballet technique. The lesson used in the video
and CD is from the fourth year of study where pointe work is being
introduced. Each exercise is fully described and counted in the book
with many photos of dancers and teaches giving them corrections. This
book is considered the indispensable textbook of the Leningrad school
of dancing.
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