Ballet Basics - Softcover

Hammond, Sandra Noll

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559341343 ISBN 13: 9781559341349

Publisher: Brown (William C.) Co ,U.S., 1993

Synopsis

Written for the adult beginner, Ballet Basics provides a comprehensive introduction to ballet technique. It provides exercise sequences complete with step-by-step illustrations. The book also includes information on conditioning and injury prevention.

About this title

About the Author:

Sandra Noll Hammond trained in ballet in New York at the Juilliard School, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and the School of Ballet Repertory. Among her teachers were Antony Tudor, Margaret Craske, Thalia Mara, and Arthur Mahoney. She has performed with the Ballet Repertory Dancers, Connecticut Opera, Arizona Dance Theatre, and Pacific Ballet. She also has worked as a free-lance artist, performing and staging Baroque ballet repertory reconstructed from her own research. A graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Hammond's teaching career has focussed on ballet in higher education. She was instrumental in developing a dance major at the University of Arizona, Tucson, where she served as Coordinator of Dance. Later, she served as Director of Dance in the Theatre and Dance Department of the University of Hawaii. Hammond is recognized internationally for her research, lectures, and publications on the history of ballet technique. In addition to Ballet Basics, her publications include Ballet: Beyond the Basics (also published by McGraw-Hill) and numerous articles in dance journals and in ballet encyclopedias and dictionaries. She is a frequent guest artist on university campuses, where she enjoys introducing students to earlier forms of ballet technique and repertory from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brown (William C.) Co ,U.S.
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1559341343
• ISBN 13: 9781559341349
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 195