Balanchine pointework
By: Suki Schorer, with assistance and an afterword by Robert Greskovic ; edited by Lynn Garafola ; performance photographs by Martha Swope ; studio demonstration photographs by Carol Rosegg / Martha Swope Associates
Series: Studies in dance history -- no. 11
Publisher: Society of Dance History Scholars
Published: 1995
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Ballet dancing; Ballet; Study and teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The pointe shoe; title: The pointed foot on and off pointe; title: Rising to pointe; title: Springing and jumping to pointe (straight knee landing); title: Stepping to pointe; title: Coming off pointe; title: Pirouettes on pointe; title: Other turns on pointe; title: Traveling steps on pointe; title: Hopping on pointe and jumping to pointe (bent knee landing); title: The use of the heel.