Book Library
The Ailina Dance Archives Book Library consists of over 300 books and is constantly growing. See below for a bibliography of dance books in the collection thus far.
Dance Book Inventory
100 Lessons in Classical Ballet – Vera Kostrovitskaya (2001)
101 Stories of the Great Ballets – Balanchine & Mason (1989)
101 stories of the Great Ballets - Balanchine and Mason
A Concise History of Ballet - Reyna
A Dancer’s World – Fonteyn (1979)
A Dictionary of Ballet - Wilson
A History of Ballet and Dance- Bland
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Lassalle (1977)
A Young Person’s Guide to Ballet – Noel Streatfeild
A Young Person’s Guide to the Ballet - Dodd (1980)
After Images – Arlene Croce – (1977)
After Images – Arlene Croce – (1977) 2nd copy
American Ballet Theatre – Leibovitz
American Ballet Theatre- Nancy Ellison – 2
American Indian Ballerinas-Lili Cockerille Livingston (1997)
And They Danced On – Karkar (1989)
Anna Pavlova - Keith Money
Apollo’s Angels – Jennifer Homans (2010)
Art of Dance - Harvey Edwards
Art of Making Dances – Doris Humphrey (1959)
Art of Making Dances – Doris Humphrey (1987)
Art of Pas de Deux – Serrebrenikov and Lawson (1978)
Art of Teaching Ballet – Gretchen Warren (1996)
Art of the Ballet-Wiliamson
Autobiography Margot Fonteyn - Fonteyn -2
Balanchine A Biography- Taper
Balanchine Complete Stories of the Great Ballets-Balanchine
Balanchine Photo Album & Memoir – Caras/Martins (SIGNED) (1985)
Balanchine Technique - Suki Schorer
Balanchine Variations – Nancy Goldner (2008)
BalleCore Workout – Molly Weeks (2005)
Ballerina – Montague (1980)
Ballerina the Life and Work of Galina Ulanova – Anna Ilupina (1964)
Ballerinas - Migel
Ballet – Harrold (1980)
Ballet 101 – Greskovic (1998)
Ballet a New Guide to the Liveliest Art- Walter Terry
Ballet and Modern Dance
Ballet Art-Clarke and Crisp
Ballet Basics-Hammond
Ballet Biographies-Davidson
Ballet Body Book-Leigh Welles
Ballet Book ABT
Ballet- Clarke and Crisp
Ballet Class – Edward Caton (1961)
Ballet Companion-Terry
Ballet Girl-Smith
Ballet Goers Guide-Clarke and Crisp
Ballet in America-Amberg
Ballet Lover’s Pocketbook-Ambrose-(1945),(1978)
Ballet Panorama – Haskell (1938)
Ballet Portraits-Maurice Seymour
Ballet Quiz Book-Camner
Ballet School-Gabriel
Ballet Since 1939 – Haskell (1948)
Ballet Student’s Primer - Ambrose-(1954)-2
Ballet Technique – Karsavina (1957)
Ballet Vignettes-Haskell
Ballet-Amberg
Ballet-Arnold Haskell (1951)
Ballet-Arnold Haskell (1955)
Ballet-Dodd
Balletmaster-Moira Shearer
Balletomania Then & Now – Arnold Haskell (1977)
Balletomania-Wentink
Ballets Russes- Garcia Marquez
Barefoot to Balanchine – Mary Kerner (1959)
Baron of the Ballet – Haskell
Baryshnikov at work-Alfred Knopf
Baryshnikov at Work- Knopf
Basic Principles of Classical
Ballet-Vaganova
Between Heaven and Hell Artistic Life in Russia- Lincoln
Bluffer’s Guide to Ballet-Dodd
Body as Body Language-McConnel
Bolshoi Ballet – Cameron (1975)
Bolshoi Ballet Story - (1959)
Bolshoi Ballet Story – Various authors (1959)
Bolshoi Ballet-Yuri Slonimsky (1963)
Book of Ballet- Guillot/Drudhommeau
Book of Ballet-Goode (1939)
Book of the Dance-Agnes de mille
Borzoi Book of Ballet-Robert
Braunsweg’s Ballet Scandals – Julian
Braunsweg – (1973)
Bravo Baryshnikov-LeMond
Carnival A Companion to Ballet –Crosland
Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet-Beaumont
Choreography by George Balanchine (1984)
Choreography Observed-Anderson
Choura-Alexandra Danilova
Classical Ballet Technique – Warren (1989)
Classical Ballet-Kirstein Stuart Dyer-2
Classics of the Royal Ballet – Jesse Davis
Colorful world of ballet-Crisp and Thorpe
Come Dance with Me-Ninette De Valois
Complete Book of Ballets-Beaumont
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet – Koegler – 2nd ed
Contemporary Dance-Abbeville
Dallas Ballet Souvenir Book (Signed)
Dance a while-Harris Pittman Waller-4th edition
Dance Anecdotes – Aloff (2006)
Dance as Life – Franklin Stevens (1976)
Dance Catalog-Reynolds
Dance Composition and production –Ronald
Dance Encyclopedia-Touchstone
Dance Eyewitness Book (2005)
Dance Ink Photographs
Dance Memoranda – Merle Armitage (1947)
Dance Perspectives 36
Dance Photography of Paul B. Goode –Goode (1991)
Dance Research Journal – 32/2 (Winter 2000/01)
Dance Writings and Poetry-Denby
Dancer Shoes – Sorine (1979)
Dancer’s Body Book- Allegra Kent
Dancer’s Book of Ballet Crafts – Haskin (2007)
Dancer’s Book of Health-Vincent
Dancer’s Companion-Loren
Dancer’s Survival Manual-Horosko and Kupersmith
Dancer’s World – Peto & Bland
Dancers of the Ballet-Atkinson
Dancers to Remember – Gordon Anthony (1980)
Dancing for Balanchine – Merrill Ashley (1984) – signed
Dancing on my Grave-Kirkland
Dancing through History – Joan Cass (1993)
Dancing-Jacob
Danse dans le Monde – Serge Lido (1971)
Danseur the Male in Ballet-Philip and Whitney
Degas- Melmoth
Degas-Huttinger
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes-Kochno
Diaghilev Ballet in London-Beaumont
Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes – Garfola (1989)
Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky-Romola Nijinsky (1968)
Dictionary of Ballet Terms – Kersley & Sinclair
Dictionary of Classical Ballet-Grant -2
Distant Dances – Sono Osato (personalized inscription and signature)
Divine Dancer Biography Ruth St. Denis-Shelton
Dolin – Wheatcroft (1982)
English Ballet-Leeper
Favorite Stories of the Ballet – Riordan
Festival Of Ballet-Balanchine-Vol 2
First Book of the Ballet-Streatfeild
Five Centuries of Ballet Design – Cyril Beaumont
Fonteyn and Nureyev-Bland
Fonteyn Catalog (Japan)
Four Centuries of Ballet-Kirstein
Frederick Ashton and his Ballets –Vaughan
French-English Dictionary of Technical Dance Terms-Beaumont
Fun With Ballet-Freeman-2
George Platt Lynes BALLET –Woody (1985)
Going to the ballet – Arnold Haskell (1958)
Grammar of the Art of Dancing – Zorn (1979)
Great Ballet prints of the Romantic Era- Migel
Great Russian Dancers-Smakov
Grecian Book on Costumes-Sokolova
Guide to the Ballet-Verwer
Hippo in a Tutu: Dancing in Disney Animation - Mindy Aloff (2009)
His Life Nureyev-Solway
Holding onto thin Air-Farrell
How and Why Book of Ballet
How to Enjoy Ballet-McDonagh
How to Improve your Ballet Dancing-Hetcher
I am a Dancer – Jacques D’amboise (2011) SIGNED
I can dance- Bullard and Charlsen
I Was There – Walter Terry (1979)
Illustrated Book of Ballet Stories -Newman
Illustrated Dance Technique of Jose Limon – Daniel Lewis (1984)
In a Rehearsal Room – Gregory, Nagy, Hahm
Inside Ballet Technique – Valerie Grieg (1994)
Inside Ballet Technique – Valerie Grieg (1994)
Isadora Duncan; the Russian Years – Ilya Schneider (1969)
Joffrey Ballet American Dance Co. – Anawalt (1996)
Joffrey Ballet School’s Ballet-Fit - Moss & Leopold
Labanotation- Hutchinson
Language of Ballet – Mara
Last Impresario Legacy of Sol Hurok – Robinson (1994) - 2
Les Ballets du Bolchoi – (1958)
Let them dance-Martyn
Life at the Royal Ballet school-Jessel
Little Ballerinas – Ann Mofris (1997)
Lively Arts-Curtis
Looking at Paintings/Dancers-Roalf
Looking at the Dance – Denby (1949)
Lucia Joyce – Carol Shloss (2003)
Magic of Dance-Margot Fonteyn
Making of a dance- Victor
Margot Fonteyn a dancer’s World-Knopf
Margot Fonteyn A Life-Daneman (2 copies, 1 signed)
Margot Fonteyn Autobiography – Fonteyn (1976) – Raucher 9/25/11
Margot Fonteyn Autobiography-Fonteyn
Maria Tallchief America’s Prima Ballerina-Tallchief
Maria Tallchief-Leeuw
Markova Remembers-Dame Markova DBE
Michel Fokine – Horwitz (1985)
Mime-Lawson
Modern Ballet – Percival (1970) 2
Modern dance Forms; in Relation to the other Modern Arts – Horst & Russell (1987)
Moving Lessons – Janice Ross (2000)
My Life – Isadora Duncan (1955)
National Geographic May 1989
New Ballet – Joos (1946)
New York City Ballet – Kirstein (1973) – SIGNED
Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins - Yael Tamar Lewin (2011)
Nijinsky – Romola Nijinsky (1934)
Nijinsky Dancing – Kirstein
Nijinsky the Film- Gelati
Nijinsky, Pavlova, and Duncan-Magriel
Nijinsky-Buckle
Nijinsky-Crosovskaya
Nureyev – Christies New York Auction– (1995)
Nureyev – Grippa/Fassey
Nureyev – Howard Brown Phaidon (1993)
Nureyev – John Percival (1977)
Nutcracker Ballet-Jack Anderson
Nutcracker- Meyerowitz
Nutcracker-Ellen Switzer (1985)
Nutcracker-Hoffman
Nutcracker-Swope
Off Balance, Real World of Ballet –Gordon (1983)
On Wings Of Joy-Garfunkel
Once a Dancer – Allegra Kent (1997)
Pas de Deux – Montague (1981)
Pavlova-FranksPhysics of Dance – Kenneth Laws (1986)
Pointe Book – Barringer (1990)
Poor Dancer’s Almanac – Friedman (1993)
Portrait Gallery – Agnes de Mille
Random House Book of Stories from the ballet-McCaughrean
Research in Dance 2Right Moves- Hurford
Royal Ballet in Performance-John Hart (1959)
Royal Ballet the first 50 years- Bland
Russian Ballet on Tour – Orloff (1989)
Russian Winter – Kalotay (2010) personalized
Sadlers Wells Ballet- Clarke (1955)
Sadler's Wells Ballet at Covent Garden - Merlyn Severn (1947)
Secret Muses Life of Frederick Ashton – Kavanagh (1996)
Sleeping Ballerina Olga Spessivtzeva - Anton Dolin (1974)
Songs and Dance –Ganzi
Speaking of Dance – Morgenroth (2004)
Split Seconds – Tamara Geva 1984
Split Seconds – Tamara Geva 1984
Stage Crafts-Hoggett
Step-by-step Ballet Class – Antoinette Sibley (1994)
Stories of the Ballet Swan Lake –Nugent
Stories of the Ballet Swan Lake –Nugent (1985)
Striking a Balance – Newman (1982)
Striking a Balance – Newman (1992)
Swan Lake (Ananiashvili)- Nancy Ellison (1999)
Tallchief America’s Prima Ballerina – Tallchief (1999)
Tchaikovsky in America – Yoffe 1986
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet-Grant-2nd 3rd ed
Technique for the ballet artiste- Spessivtzeva
Thirty Years the NYCB-Kirstein and Knopf
Time and the Dancing Image – Jowitt (1989)
Time Steps- McKechnie
To a Young Dancer-Agnes De mille
To Dance on Sands – Marta Becket (2007)
To Dance, to Dream-Drury
To Dance-Valery Panov
Tributes- NYCB
Under My Wings-Paul Szilard (2002)-SIGNED
Understanding Ballet –Gregory and Davis
Victor Book of Ballets and Ballet Music-Lawrence (1950) 2 copies
Vision of Modern Dance – Jean Brown (1979)
Walter Terry’s Ballet Guide-Terry
Watching the Dance Go By – Marcia B. Seigel 1977
White Swan Black Swan-Sharp
Winter Season-Toni Bentley
Wonderful world of Dance-Haskell
World of Diaghilev – Percival (1971)
World of Diaghilev – Percival (1979)
World of Serge Diaghilev-Spencer Dyer
Writing in the Dark, Dancing in the New Yorker – Croce (2000)
Your Book of Ballet – Moldon
Zorina-Vera Zorina (1986)
Ballet Sets
Ballet Annual 1,2,3,4,5,7,10,11,16,17
Ballet One Series #3
Dance World 1972 Vol 7
Children's Ballet Books
10 Little Ballerinas-Holub
12 Ballet Bookmarks
1st 2nd 3rd Steps in Ballet-Mara
A star for the Latecomer-Zindel
A time to dance-Dean
Angelina Ballerina-Craig
Angelina Dances-Craig
Angelina in the Wings-Craig
Ballerina Fairies Paper Dolls – Tom Tierney
Ballerina My Story-Darci Kistler
Ballet Bunny-Bloss
Ballet Dreams Coloring Book Ballet Kitty-Anderson
Ballet School 4 Megan’s Nutcracker Prince-Costello
Ballet Stained Glass Coloring Book
Ballet Sticker Activity Book
Ballet Stories-Castor
Barbie in the Nutcracker-Pleasant Company
Barbie of Swan Lake
Barry’s Ballet Book-Jackson
Becoming a ballerina-Ellison
Busy Ballet School-Lamb
Coppelia-Pictorial
Dance, Tanya - Ichikawa
Dancing with Degas-Merberg
Degas Ballet Dancers Cards
Drina 1,2,5 –Estoril
I can dance-Bullard and Charlsen
I Can Read About Ballet – Erica Frost (1975)
I dreamed I was a Ballerina – Anna Pavlova (2001)
Joyce Mackie Basic Ballet
Lets Dance Barbie Little Ballerina-Ross
Little Swan-Geras
My ballerina Diary-Steadman
My Ballet Book-castle
My Ballet Diary- Putnam N
ina Nina Ballerina-O’connor
Nutcracker ballet-Hautzeg
Nutcracker-Little Golden Book
Out of Step-Richardson
Red Shoes-Anderson
Ribbons-Yep
Sinead the Dancer-Donovan
Starting ballet-Edom
Stories from the Ballet –Cathay Books
Swan Lake-Kennedy
What Its like to be a ballet dancer
Exhibition Catalogues
Covent Garden 25 years of Ballet and Opera - 1971
