Excerpt from The Chalif Text Book of Dancing, Vol. 5 In presenting this volume to the favor of the teaching and dancing profession we do not claim to cover the whole field of toe dancing, nor to say that if one merely practice all the exercises of this book one will become a beautiful toe dancer. Such a limited student would certainly not, for the beautiful toe dancer must be a beautiful dancer as well, and in good dancing every part of the body is included. There is not room between the front and back covers of one book to tell all that is known about teaching how to dance beautifully. That would require at least one hundred volumes. The present work deals mostly with the legs; nor does it tell all about their technique either, for the toe dancer is expected to do many "stunts" with the legs, as well as the more natural movements of hopping and leaping, and none of those are included here. All that we claim to teach thru the following exercises is how to strengthen the toes so that they can carry the weight of the whole body, without giving way under the strain, and how to walk and stand correctly on the points. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.