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The Books: Ballet Shoes (Noel Streatfield)

Daily Book Excerpt: YA fiction/children’s books: Next book on the shelf is Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild. There are a couple of important books I read in my childhood and this is one of them. Important, I mean, in terms … Continue reading

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A Real-Life Degas

Dancers perform during a dress rehearsal for the ballet ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at the Royal Opera House in London, May 12, 2006. The first public performance of the ballet will be on May 15, 2006. REUTERS/Steve Lewis

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Ballet Dames

And here’s the last quote in re: Audrey Hepburn. I absolutely LOVE this one. “She’s disciplined, like all those ballet dames.” — Humphrey Bogart on Audrey Hepburn

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Recovery

The Bolshoi Ballet came to New York for the first time in 1959. John Martin, the NY Times dance critic had this to say: The impact of the Bolshoi has been overwhelming. And it will be something of a calamity … Continue reading

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