In her first health & fitness book celebrated ballerina Misty Copeland shows you how to find the motivation to get healthier & stronger & how to refine the body you were born with to be lean strong & flexible with step-by-step advice meal plans workout routines & words of inspiration Misty offers her own time-tested ballet-inspired movements that are perfect for women who want to lengthen & strengthen but don't want to run a marathon or lift weights She also demonstrates the floor exercises that helped maintain her own ballerina body while recovering from an injury Misty's eating plan focuses on vegetables fruits plant fats animal proteins & beneficial oils
- all of which keep her energetic & in top shape With simple & delicious recipes for Granola Spinach & Goat Cheese Salad Quick Salsa Chili & even a Ballerina Smoothie you'll be satisfied & happy while getting leaner To keep you motivated Misty gives tips & words of encouragement on persevering even when you may want to give up including a peek into her personal journal to inspire you & help you stay on the road to your own ballerina body
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One windy day a magazine blew down the road I reached out & caught it A pretty picture of a woman was on the front cover of the magazine She wore a short pink dress that stuck out around her in a circle She looked very happy At the age of three Michaela De Prince found a photo of a ballerina that changed her life She was living in an orphanage in Sierra Leone at the time but was soon adopted by a family & brought to America Michaela never forgot the photo of the dancer she once saw & decided to make her dream of becoming a ballerina come true She has been dancing ever since & after a spell as a principal dancer in New York now dances for the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam Beautifully & gently illustrated by Ella Okstad Ballerina Dreams is the younger-reader edition of Michaela De Prince's highly moving memoir Hope in a Ballet Shoe ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Felicie is a young orphan from Brittany who has only one passion dance With her best friend Victor who wants to become a great inventor they come up with a madcap scheme to escape their orphanage for Paris the City of Lights with its Eiffel Tower still under construction! Felicie has to fight like she has never fought before she has to outdo herself & learn from her mistakes to make her craziest dream come true becoming a prima ballerina at the Paris Opera ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Does your little girl know how to do a Pirouette or an arabesque does she want to learn? Ballerina Magic is the must have for any budding ballerina The CD comprises 18 of the most popular excerpts from the biggest ballets of all time including familiar pieces from The Nutcracker Swan Lake Coppelia & Romeo & Juliet ...

This eye-catching wall plaque is from our eclectic range of bronze dance sculptures Made by Beauchamp Bronze from cold cast bronze it makes a beautiful special gift for an aspiring ballerina & lover of the ballet Ballet dancer wall art Cold cast bronze O Tupton Height 28cm (11") Width 15cm Depth 2cm New & boxed ...

Helps children improve their ballet From first position to en pointe this book shows detailed step-by-step photographs of how young ballerinas can improve on each position whatever their age or stage; making it enjoyable & easy to perfect their style The DVD features the ballet steps & individual dances in motion 80 pages Hackett Jane ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All ten episodes from the first season of the American football comedy starring Dwayne Johnson Retired NFL players & former teammates Spencer Strasmore (Johnson) & Charles Greane (Omar Benson Miller) struggle to adapt to life after football Spencer takes up a job as a financial manager for NFL players while Charles starts working at a car dealership & begins to wonder whether he chose to retire too early Meanwhile the new signing for the Green Bay Packers Ricky Jerret (John David Washington) doesn&t find his new teammates so welcoming The episodes are & Pilot& & Raise Up& & Move the Chains& & Heads Will Roll& & Machete Charge& & Everything Is Everything& & Ends& & Gaslighting& & Head-On& & & Flamingos& ...

This cornerstone of the World of Art series is a succinct vivid & authoritative guide to the rich history of western dance in all its incarnations from 16th-century court ballet to the genre-shattering contortions of 21st-century theatrical dance Updated for the new millennium to feature the latest styles performers & technology this third edition reaffirms its status as the essential introduction to the subject ...

Ballet Body Narratives is an ethnographic exploration of the social world of classical ballet & the embodiment of young ballet dancers as they engage in "becoming a dancer" in ballet school in England In contrast to the largely disembodied sociological literature of the body this book places the corporeal body as central to the examination & reveals significant relationships between body society & identity Drawing on academic scholarship as well as rich ballet body narratives from young dancers this book investigates how young ballet dancers' bodies are lived experienced & constructed through their desire to become performing ballet dancers as well as the seductive appeal of the ballet aesthetic Pierre Bourdieu's critique of the perpetuating social order & his theoretical framework of field habitus & capital are applied as a way of understanding the social world of ballet but also of relating the ballet habitus & belief in the body to broader social structures This book examines the distinctiveness of ballet culture & aspects of young ballet dancers' embodied identity through a central focus on the ballet body ...

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