Common Faults in Young Dancers and Their Training
Beyond Stanislavsky takes the reader through a course in the new system, complete with exercises. Infused with the author's personal experience this is never a set of dry instructions, but a vital engagement with Stanislavsky's mature ideas on actor training.
Beginning Ballet is an essential first book for ballet students and their parents. The newly edited and revised edition provides a guide to technique, vocabulary and practice in class as well as to the costumes required for class and stage. Joan Lawson also offers invaluable advice to parents on how to seek ballet training for their child. The book is illustrated throughout by the remarkable drawings of Kay Ambrose and the costume patterns of Peter Revitt. Teachers will find an excellent selection of steps, exercises and drawings of basic poses adapted from various well-known methods of dancing.
A guide for teachers in eliminating the common faults found among children studying classical dance, whether as amateurs or aspiring professionals. The author writes from long experience in teaching at the Royal Ballet School in London. She has made a prolonged study of the various methods of teaching classical dance to boys and girls and has discussed with many teachers in England, Russia and the U.S. the faults which arise through inadequate attention to the different ways in which each child grows. With 140 photographs and seven diagrams.