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When Ella Bella loses one of her ballet slippers, Madame Rosa loans her another pair and then relates the story of Cinderella and the lost shoe. As soon as a tune from a mysterious music box begins to play, Ella Bella finds herself dancing into the world of the Cinderella ballet. But can Ella Bella help Cinderella attend the royal ball?

Rigorously trained from an early age by a perfectionist instructor, Polina is a promising classical ballet dancer. She is just about to join the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet when she discovers contemporary dance, a revelation that throws everything into question on a profound level.

Two friends get ready and then dance with their ballet class at a performance--where they're the stars of the show.

Pacarrete is an elderly ballet dancer from Brazil who may just be slightly crazy. After her retirement as a dance and ballet instructor, she goes back to her hometown. However, still fearless at her age, she decides to give a dance performance as a \"gift to the people\" on the eve of the city's bicentennial celebration. But it seems nobody cares about Pacarrete. This absorbing comedic drama stars Marcelia Cartaxo (\"The Hour of the Star\").

Ballet instructor Miss Lina has a solution when her eight students, who always dance in pairs, are distraught when a ninth girl joins the class.

Cet ouvrage, croisant les sciences sociales à l'art chorégraphique, propose de répondre à la question \"Pourquoi les filles font-elles de la danse ?\" et d'en élucider le sens. Il se compose, d'une part, d'un travail d'anthropologie historique et, d'autre part, d'une ethnographie de terrain permettant de saisir les enjeux identitaires et socioculturels de la danse féminine. La question posée est celle, anthropologique, des représentations collectives et des pratiques qui façonnent les identités sexuées en Occident.

Ballet instructor Miss Lina has a solution when her eight students, who always dance in pairs, are distraught when a ninth girl joins the class.

It was the first ballet on the program for the Toronto performances - Lar Lubovitch's The Red Shoes, rather than the last, [KAREN KAIN]'s - that established the tension between historical event and aesthetic expression. The original story of The Red Shoes, on which both the 1948 film and the more recent broadway musical were based, was written by the Danish children's fablist, Hans Christian Andersen. It is a story about a young girl who, taunted by her playmates because of her shabby dress and bare feet, steals a pair of enchanted shoes from a wicked shoemaker. They turn her feet into sparkling, dancing feet. She is delighted and proud of who she has become and what she can now do. She soon discovers, however, that the shoes cannot be removed, and they will never let her stop dancing. (Is this the subtext to Karen Kain's farewell tour?) In the Hans Christian Andersen story, the girl must either be danced to death or have her feet cut off. She chooses the latter. In the ballet, she has the shoes removed by the magician to whom they belong, and she dies in his arms, spared the more horrible fate of the ghostly figures we see in a graveyard, young girls dressed in white, with long white - blond hair and red shoes, who dance ceaselessly to exhaustion even in death in an obscure hell for young women with red shoes. On the other hand, a person might not read the ballet according to such symbols at all. If the ballet is about pretty dancing, entertainment, or historical fact (been there, done that - seen Karen Kain's farewell tour) perhaps the interpretations and criticisms do not matter. One way to find out is to discuss the work, to reflect on it, to compare. How does the ballet affect us? How does it affect our children? What meaning do we bring to the story and to the ballet, and what do we take from it? What does the art of Karen Kain mean to us, and why should The Red Shoes be the opening ballet of her farewell tour? Of course, such questions are relevant only if one believes there are deeper relationships with dance art than its entertainment value. It depends on how we think history gets made, as an event generated either by media hype or from the more mysterious forces at play in the individual as he or she finds meaning in a particular work of art. Myth and reality, fiction and historical fact are not easily separated. The boundaries between the story of the ballet and of the ballerina's farewell are blurred. When do the shoes come off, and who is the evil magician? The iconolatry surrounding Karen Kain, promoted by the National Ballet and generated by the media, is doubly established by [James Kudelka]'s work. The characters in The Actress are caricatures, archetypes of artistes and patrons of the theatre. Kudelka reiterates the conventional myth of what it is to have a ballerina's life. (In a television interview shortly after the original premiere of The Actress, I heard Kain say that her life was not nearly so glamorous as that portrayed in Kudelka's ballet. What did all the little girls and boys in the audience understand of a dancer's passion from this ballet and from this farewell tour program?)

\"From the author of the widely acclaimed debut novel Seating Arrangements, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize: a gorgeously written, fiercely compelling glimpse into the passionate, political world of professional ballet and its magnetic hold over two generations. Astonish Me is the irresistible story of Joan, a ballerina whose life has been shaped by her relationship with the world-famous dancer Arslan Ruskov, whom she helps defect from the Soviet Union to the U.S. While Arslan's career takes off in New York, Joan's slowly declines, ending when she becomes pregnant and decides to marry her longtime admirer, a PhD student named Jacob. As the years pass, Joan settles into her new life in California, teaching dance and watching her son, Harry, become a ballet prodigy himself. But when Harry's success brings him into close contact with Arslan, explosive secrets are revealed that shatter the delicate balance Joan has struck between her past and present. In graceful, inimitable prose, Shipstead draws us into the lives of her lovably tempestuous characters. Filled with intrigue, hilarious satire, and emotional nuance, Astonish Me is a brilliant investigation into the bonds that hold us, despite the distancing of time and geography\"-- Provided by publisher.

A young girl invites us into her ballet class, and later performs onstage in her first recital.