Books and Film on Ballet and the Business of Ballet
Jessica Lang’s “Shades of Spring”
Photo by Steven Pisano
| 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 |
