Ballet technique : a series of practical essays [Introduction: Slowly but surely - Adage -- Elevation Steps -- Point work -- Pirouettes -- Tension and relaxation -- Summaray -- Lost steps 1 -- Lost steps 2 -- The use of the instep -- Batterie -- Subordinate steps -- Balance]

48 pages : 27 photographic illustrations ; 25 cm ; Essays originally published in the Dancing times.; LCCN: 68-28084 ; LC: GV1788; Dewey: 792.82 ; OCLC: 10674 ; ISBN: 0878300112; 9780878300112 ; purple cloth in photographic dustjacket with a corner nick; Contents: Introduction: Slowly but surely - Adage -- Elevation Steps -- Point work -- Pirouettes -- Tension and relaxation -- Summaray -- Lost steps 1 -- Lost steps 2 -- The use of the instep -- Batterie -- Subordinate steps -- Balance. ; Photographs by Paul Wilson and Felix Fonteyn ; dancers featured in photographs include Svetlana Beriosova, Prudence Hyman, Beryl Grey, Anton Dolin, Tamara Toumanova, Yvette Chauvire, Youly Algaroff, John Field, Alicia Markova, Serge Golovine, Kathleen Gorham, Alan Carter, June Brae, and Michael Somes ; FINE/GV.