100 Lessons in Classical Ballet: The Eight-Year Program of Leningrad's Vaganova Choreographic School

by Vera S. Kostrovitskaya, Oleg Briansky (Translator)

The complete 8-year curriculum of Leningrad's famed Vaganova Choreographic School, which trained Nureyev, Baryshnikov, and Makarova, including over 100 photographs. A volume which no teacher, scholar, or student of the dance can afford to miss. “A serious, indeed indispensable, textbook.” –Clive Barnes

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference

400 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2004

Reviews

[Carolyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

A beautiful eight-year syllabus from the fine training traditions of the Russian classical ballet. A must for any dancer. Will certainly improve the form of any ballerina, particularly when paired with Vaganova's "Fundamentals...". It must be paired with instruction, as a book does very little to instruct upon posture, placement of the limbs, etc.