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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as dance)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,060 ratings — published 2014
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as dance)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,127 ratings — published 2010
Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as dance)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,280 ratings — published 2011
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as dance)
avg rating 4.07 — 39,191 ratings — published 1936
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as dance)
avg rating 3.66 — 16,210 ratings — published 2015
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as dance)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,566 ratings — published 2014
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as dance)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,539 ratings — published 1986
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as dance)
avg rating 3.62 — 20,106 ratings — published 2014
Flora and the Flamingo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as dance)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,723 ratings — published 2013
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)
by (shelved 61 times as dance)
avg rating 4.39 — 563 ratings — published 1967
Giraffes Can't Dance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as dance)
avg rating 4.34 — 34,326 ratings — published 2012
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as dance)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,958 ratings — published 2006
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as dance)
avg rating 3.96 — 719 ratings — published 1982
A Time to Dance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as dance)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,392 ratings — published 2014
How Do You Dance?: A Picture Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as dance)
avg rating 3.99 — 785 ratings — published 2019
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as dance)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,816 ratings — published 2014
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as dance)
avg rating 4.17 — 762 ratings — published 1990
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as dance)
avg rating 4.10 — 43,295 ratings — published 2003
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as dance)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,707 ratings — published 1985
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as dance)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,620 ratings — published 2015
Once a Dancer: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as dance)
avg rating 4.03 — 360 ratings — published 1997
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as dance)
avg rating 4.14 — 33,020 ratings — published 2003
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as dance)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,343 ratings — published 2024
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as dance)
avg rating 3.82 — 977 ratings — published 2014
Brontorina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as dance)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,493 ratings — published 2010
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as dance)
avg rating 3.62 — 37,013 ratings — published 2012
Dancing Feet! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as dance)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,486 ratings — published 2010
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as dance)
avg rating 3.32 — 1,417 ratings — published 2011
Instructions for Dancing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as dance)
avg rating 3.95 — 57,745 ratings — published 2021
Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as dance)
avg rating 4.16 — 721 ratings — published 2017
Swing Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as dance)
avg rating 3.56 — 78,322 ratings — published 2016
The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as dance)
avg rating 4.35 — 616 ratings — published 2005
Finding My Dance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as dance)
avg rating 4.36 — 736 ratings — published 2022
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as dance)
avg rating 3.44 — 12,003 ratings — published 2021
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as dance)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,733 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Making Dances (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as dance)
avg rating 3.95 — 217 ratings — published 1959
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as dance)
avg rating 4.02 — 789 ratings — published 2021
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 35 times as dance)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,661 ratings — published 2016
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as dance)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,068 ratings — published 2021
When Langston Dances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as dance)
avg rating 4.44 — 441 ratings — published
I Will Dance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as dance)
avg rating 4.40 — 629 ratings — published 2020
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as dance)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,760 ratings — published 1988
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as dance)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,280 ratings — published 2016
A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina's Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as dance)
avg rating 4.16 — 980 ratings — published 2014
Dancing Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as dance)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,616 ratings — published 1956
Nureyev: The Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as dance)
avg rating 4.11 — 558 ratings — published 2007
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
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“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
― The Land of Heart's Desire
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
― The Land of Heart's Desire
