A Ballerina Prepares: Classical Ballet Variations for the Female Dancer

Ludmilla Shollar, Laurencia Klaja, Anatole Vilzak, Selene Fung

Doubleday, 1982 - Performing Arts - 335 pages

Technical descriptions of classical variations taught at the Vilzak-Shollar School of Ballet and collected by former student Laurencia Klaja. The choreographer most represented in the collection is Marius Petipa (see page 16).

Contents

• Illustrations: 12
• Acknowledgments: 21
• COPPELIA: 30
• 25: 58
• RAYMONDA: 79
• Princess Auroras Act I Variation: 117
• Lilac Fairy Variation: 149
• Pas de Quatre Intrada Part: 173
• Pas de Quatre Intrada Part: 193
• Gold Fairy Variation: 207
• Silver Fairy Variation: 223
• Diamond Fairy Variation: 243
• SWAN LAKE: 259
• Swan Queens Act II Coda: 287
• SYLVIA: 303

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Ballerina Prepares: Classical Ballet Variations for the Female Dancer
• Authors: Ludmilla Shollar, Laurencia Klaja, Anatole Vilzak, Selene Fung
• Illustrated by: Selene Fung
• Contributor: Laurencia Klaja
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Doubleday, 1982
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Apr 28, 2010
• ISBN: 0385158947, 9780385158947
• Length: 335 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Dance / Classical & Ballet