Books and Film on Ballet and the Business of Ballet
Marika Brussel and Peninsula Ballet Theatre in California
Rehearsal images for Brussel’s new work “Slant of the Earth”
Photo by Elizabeth Langfeld
| Title | Author | Genre |
|---|---|---|
| American Ballet Theatre: A History | Ric Burns | film |
| Apollo’s Angels | Jennifer Homans | book |
| Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection | Deirdre Kelly | book |
| A Ballerina’s Tale | Misty Copeland, Susan Fales Hill & Deidre Kelly | film |
| Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet | Laura Jacobs | book |
| Dancing on My Grave | Gelsey Kirkland | book |
| The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet | Deborah Bull, Baroness Bull & Luke Jennings | book |
| Writing in the Dark | Arlene Croce | book |
| Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints | Joan Acocella | book |
| Balanchine Variations | Nancy Goldner | book |
| Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer | Elizabeth Kendall | book |
| Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes | Lynn Garafola | book |
| Tchaikovsky’s Ballets: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker | Roland John Wiley | book |
| The Life and Ballets of Lev Ivanov: Choreographer of The Nutcracker and Swan Lake | Roland John Wiley | book |
| Frederick Ashton and His Ballets | David Vaughan | book |
| Dance Writings and Poetry | David Denby | book |
| Terpsihore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance | Sally Banes | book |
| I was a Dancer | Jacques d’Amboise | book |
| Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham | Agnes de Mille | book |
| Balletomania: The Story of an Obsession | Arnold Haskell | book |
| The Worlds of Lincoln Kirsten | Martin Duberman | book |
| No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century | Malcolm McCormick and Nancy Reynolds | book |
| Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins | Amanda Vaill | book |
| Dance in America: A Reader’s Anthology | Mindy Aloff and Robert Gottlieb | book |
| Swans of the Kremlin: Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia | Christina Ezrahi | book |
| I, Maya Plisetskaya | Maya Plisetskaya | book |
| No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer’s Story | Carlos Acosta | book |
| BalletNow | Steven Cantor | film |
| Ballet 422 | Jody Lee Lipes | film |
| Sylvie Guillem: Sur le fil | Françoise Ha Van Kern | film |
| Anna Pavlova: Twentieth Century Ballerina | Caroline Hamilton and Jane Pritchard | book |
| Darcey Bussell, A Ballerina’s Life | Ross MacGibbon | film |
| Dancing for Balanchine | Merill Ashley | book |
| Markova Remembers | Alicia Markova | book |
| Ballerina: My Story | Darci Kistler | book |
| La Danse, le ballet de l’Opéra de Paris | Frederick Wiseman | film |
| Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage | Sally Banes | book |
| Bunheads | Sophie Flack | book |
| Leaps in the Dark | Mindy Aloff | book |
| Marmalade Me | Jill Johnston | book |
| Dance in America | Mindy Aloff | book |
| Ballet Class: An American History | Melissa R. Klapper | book |
| Beauty is Experience: Dancing 50 and Beyond! | Emmaly Wiederholt | book |
| Nouvelle Histoire de la danse en Occident | Dr. Laura Cappelle | book |
| Dance Theatre of Harlem: A History, A Movement, A Celebration | Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel | book |
