Best Non-fiction Books on Ballet

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Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet 4.01 avg rating — 2,031 ratings
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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina 3.89 avg rating — 8,387 ratings
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Holding On to the Air
Holding On to the Air 4.16 avg rating — 728 ratings
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Private View: Inside Baryshnikov's American Ballet Theatre
Private View: Inside Baryshnikov's American Ballet Theatre 4.23 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Dancing on My Grave
Dancing on My Grave 3.88 avg rating — 2,464 ratings
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Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer
Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer 4.24 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Margot Fonteyn
Margot Fonteyn 4.02 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Once a Dancer: An Autobiography
Once a Dancer: An Autobiography 4.02 avg rating — 350 ratings
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I Remember Balanchine
I Remember Balanchine 4.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Ballet Dancers in Career Transition: Sixteen Success Stories
Ballet Dancers in Career Transition: Sixteen Success Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Ballet Lover's Companion
The Ballet Lover's Companion 4.17 avg rating — 46 ratings
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A Young Dancer's Apprenticeship
A Young Dancer's Apprenticeship 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Come Dance With Me: A Memoir, 1898-1956
Come Dance With Me: A Memoir, 1898-1956 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Balanchine and Kirstein's American Enterprise
Balanchine and Kirstein's American Enterprise 4.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal 3.95 avg rating — 686 ratings
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The How and Why Wonder Book of Ballet
The How and Why Wonder Book of Ballet 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Steps in Ballet: Basic Exercises at the Barre, Basic Centre Exercises, Basic Allegro Steps by Thalia Mara (1-Dec-2004) Paperback
Steps in Ballet: Basic Exercises at the Barre, Basic Centre Exercises, Basic Allegro Steps by Thalia Mara (1-Dec-2004) Paperback really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet 3.82 avg rating — 1,983 ratings
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The Sugarless Plum: A Ballerina's Triumph over Diabetes
The Sugarless Plum: A Ballerina's Triumph over Diabetes 3.82 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Rene Blum and The Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life
Rene Blum and The Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Balanchine: A Biography
Balanchine: A Biography 4.25 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet
Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet 3.74 avg rating — 224 ratings
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First Steps in Ballet: Home Practice in Basic Exercise
First Steps in Ballet: Home Practice in Basic Exercise 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Classic Ballet: Basic Technique and Terminology
The Classic Ballet: Basic Technique and Terminology 4.05 avg rating — 55 ratings
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George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker
George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker 3.79 avg rating — 170 ratings
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New York City Ballet Workout: Fifty Stretches and Exercises Anyone Can Do for a Strong, Graceful, and Sculpted Body
New York City Ballet Workout: Fifty Stretches and Exercises Anyone Can Do for a Strong, Graceful, and Sculpted Body 4.06 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia
Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Ballet Beautiful: Transform Your Body and Gain the Strength, Grace, and Focus of a Ballet Dancer
Ballet Beautiful: Transform Your Body and Gain the Strength, Grace, and Focus of a Ballet Dancer 3.93 avg rating — 588 ratings
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Irina: Ballet, Life and Love
Irina: Ballet, Life and Love 4.02 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Diaghilev
Diaghilev 4.35 avg rating — 301 ratings
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The Ballerina Mindset: How to Protect Your Mental Health While Striving for Excellence
The Ballerina Mindset: How to Protect Your Mental Health While Striving for Excellence 3.98 avg rating — 507 ratings
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Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton
Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Lighter, Stronger, and More Graceful You
Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Lighter, Stronger, and More Graceful You 3.70 avg rating — 967 ratings
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Fonteyn: Impressions of a Ballerina
Fonteyn: Impressions of a Ballerina 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Dancing for Balanchine
Dancing for Balanchine 3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Last Words
Last Words 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Markova: The Legend
Markova: The Legend 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina 3.93 avg rating — 275 ratings