How to Be a Ballerina
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Description
How to Be a Ballerina helps budding ballerinas combine basic dance steps with graceful movement to create five simple yet effective solo dances for the ballet Sleeping Beauty. Following several brief warm-up exercises, ballet instructor Debra Bradnum and several young students demonstrate simple dances for "Enchanted Garden," "Woodland Glade Fairy," "Songbird Fairy," "Lilac Fairy," and "Carabosse--the Wicked Fairy." By combining dance steps like plié, spring point, walking, running, and chaseé with graceful arm movements and elements of mime, Bradnum creates solo dances appropriate for both novices and more proficient ballet students. Each dance is carefully demonstrated, then presented at speed with piano accompaniment. The program culminates with a fully staged and costumed performance featuring student soloists in each of the five aforementioned dances. Intended as an aid to imaginative play and crafted to be safe for untrained children, this 45-minute video is informative and practicable. (Ages 3 to 8) --Tami Horiuchi
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