Ballet for Life

Ballet for Life
Author: Mary Helen Bowers
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0847858375

A chic and informative guide to the Ballet Beautiful method, featuring dance-inspired exercises, wellness tips, and lifestyle advice that help readers achieve ballerina confidence and self-esteem. After a career with the New York City Ballet, Mary Helen Bowers created Ballet Beautiful, a fitness and lifestyle program inspired by ballet’s artistry and athleticism. Designed to give anyone a ballerina body, Bowers’s targeted exercises tone and lengthen muscles, develop good posture, and teach grace in movement. Since launching in 2008, Bowers and her training have been sought after by celebrities and models (Alexa Chung, Liv Tyler, and Miranda Kerr, to name a few), as well as thousands of women across the globe through their streaming service. This book delves into the Ballet Beautiful universe, showing readers how to attain a ballerina’s lean and powerful physique and graceful poise via exercises, posture lessons, wellness tips, and fashion and beauty advice that can be effortlessly incorporated into everyday routines. The book features original images by the legendary photographers Inez and Vinoodh coupled with technical photographs illustrating the Ballet Beautiful workout and lifestyle. A refreshing antidote to traditional fitness programs and restrictive diets, this book is a stylish and instructional guide to transforming your body and life though ballet.

Ballet Beautiful

Ballet Beautiful
Author: Mary Helen Bowers
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0738215899

Ballet-inspired fitness for every woman! You don't have to be a professional ballerina to look like one! With Mary Helen Bowers' Ballet Beautiful, forget beating yourself up in the gym and suffering through starvation diets for some unattainable goal. You can achieve your ideal body and develop the strength, grace, and elegance of a dancer by following Mary Helen's proven program-one that's got everyone from celebrities to busy moms to executives raving!Ballet Beautiful is a fitness method that blends the artistry and athleticism of ballet with an easy, accessible eating plan that works for every body - and absolutely no dance experience is required. Created by professional ballerina Mary Helen Bowers, this transformative approach to fitness and health will reshape your body and your mind!Ballet Beautiful's three-fold approach is not an extreme workout nor is it a radical diet for an overnight fix; it's a roadmap to achieving and maintaining your ideal health, shape and size-all with the elegance and strength of a ballerina. Part One of the book introduces the program's empowering mindset, the key to supporting and guiding you through lasting change. Part Two, the Ballet Beautiful Method, consists of challenging, effective, and fun workouts that sculpt and tone sleek ballet muscles and build beautiful posture. Whether you have a full hour or only 15 minutes, you can tailor the program to your own schedule and needs. Part Three shares the Ballet Beautiful Lifestyle, a healthy, balanced approach to nutrition. With meal plans, shopping tips and quick but delicious daily recipes that will satisfy and nourish your entire body, it's a stress-free, diet-free plan that will help keep you feeling as strong and healthy as you look.

Wonderful World of Ballet

Wonderful World of Ballet
Author: MARA. CONLON
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781441305220

Fold-out scenes include a ballet studio, dressing room, and performance stage, each with fun pop-outs! Set includes over 45 ballet dress-up paper dolls, outfits, and more popular ballet characters. Book includes paper doll punch-outs and fun facts and history about ballet. A heavy-duty storage envelope keeps dolls and outfits safe between playtimes. Ages 6 and up.

Off Balance

Off Balance
Author: Suzanne Gordon
Publisher: New York : Pantheon
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1983
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

"Behind the glitter and illusions of the ballet world lie the poignant, often shocking realities of a dancer's life. A borderline anorexic dances seven hours a day and completes high school through correspondence courses; she is fifteen years old. A New York dancer performs despite agonizing pain in his shins until a doctor tells him he has eight stress fractures; he is twenty-five. After ten years of professional dancing and twelve years of training at a cost of nearly $75,000, a dancer is told that she's too old for the company; she is thirty. They love to dance and have made unimaginable sacrifices to achieve what they have. But after two years of intimate conversations with dozens of dancers like these, Suzanne Gordon wonders whether their sacrifices are really necessary. From New York to San Fransisco, from Houston to Chicago, in Europe and in Scandinavia, Gordon explores the inner lives of dancers, revealing for the first time the dreams and realities of the young men and women ballet audiences so admire. .."--Jacket.

The Ballet Book

The Ballet Book
Author: Nancy Ellison
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2003
Genre: Ballet
ISBN:

Provides photographs of members of the American Ballet Theatre demonstrating positions and includes discussion and photographs of classwork, rehearsal, choreography, and major ballets.

Ballet Class Coloring Book

Ballet Class Coloring Book
Author: John Green
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1997-05-31
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780486296388

Forty-two clear, accurate drawings (all in proper sequence) depict everything that goes on in a beginner's class, from lacing up the ballet shoe to executing the perfect arabesque. Illustrated instructions as well for proper posture, warm-up exercises, arm movements and much more. Inspirational, encouraging and instructive advice.

What a Wonderful World

What a Wonderful World
Author: Bob Thiele
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2015-02-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1627792554

The classic and beloved song is brought to life with bright and colorful illustrations by Tim Hopgood. First recorded in 1967 by Louis Armstrong, and with sales of over one million copies, "What a Wonderful World" has become a poignant message of hope for people everywhere. Sweet and positive in its message, with bright, beautiful art, this book is sure to be a hit. Perfect for sharing!

The Wonderful World of Dance

The Wonderful World of Dance
Author: Arnold Lionel Haskell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1969
Genre: Ballet
ISBN:

Describes the development of dance from Stone Age ritual to modern ballet and twist. Includes an eighteen-page glossary of dance terms with pictures.