6.1. Ballet and Modern Dance Books
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This article is from the Ballet and Modern Dance FAQ, by Tom Parsons twp@panix.com with numerous contributions by others.
6.1. Ballet and Modern Dance Books
You will never learn ballet or any other kind of dance just by
reading about it; you will never learn a step that way. But you should
know the cultural and historical background of your art, even if you are
an amateur, and once you have been shown a step, it helps to have an
additional description to which you can refer at home.
A list like this is necessarily incomplete. Moreover, dance books
seem to go out of print more quickly than do other books, so some of these
may be difficult to find except in a well-stocked library. The nucleus of
this list consists of books that can probably provide answers to questions
like the ones in this FAQ; but most of the list now consists of books that
have been recommended by people on a.a.b. New books are added in almost
every release of this FAQ.
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