The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training and Technique - Softcover

Barringer, Janice; Schlesinger, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087127261X ISBN 13: 9780871272614

Publisher: Princeton Book Company, 2004

Synopsis

Expanded and updated throughout, this guide provides a thorough examination of pointe shoes and pointe technique. Dancers quickly benefit from the most current research that offers the most recent information on hundreds of contemporary designs, materials, products, and suppliers. It illuminates the shoemaking process and gives advice about how to best fit, care for and custom-order shoes. The basics of point readiness, pointe technique, different pointe methods and the history of pointe are discussed. Includes a handy reference on pointe-related injuries and their remedies. The authors also provide an authoritative pointe class syllabus for teachers and students. In the last chapter four prominent ballerinas talk about their shoes, how they found the perfect fit and the joy of dancing on pointe.

About this title

Review:

""Addresses nearly every question that you could think to ask about pointe shoes."

About the Author:

Janice Barringer teaches, choreographs and lectures in the United States, Canada and China and writes for Pointe and American Dancer magazines. She has been spotlighted in the PBS Dance in America series, and she has been on the faculty of the American Dance Centre, Ballet Hispanico, Harkness House and Steps on Broadway. Sarah Schlesinger, former owner of Capezio Dance Theatre Shops in Maryland and Delaware, has extensive experience fitting pointe shoes and solving pointe shoerelated problems. She is chair at the graduate musical theatre writing program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton Book Company
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 087127261X
• ISBN 13: 9780871272614
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304