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Genre/Form: | Children's nonfiction Juvenile works Literature Juvenile literature Ouvrages pour la jeunesse |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Barringer, Janice. Pointe book. Hightstown, NJ : Princeton Book Co., 2004 (OCoLC)647073808 |
Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Janice Barringer; Sarah Schlesinger |
ISBN: | 087127261X 9780871272614 |
OCLC Number: | 55095812 |
Description: | xvii, 302 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | A brief history of pointe dancing -- The foot and the pointe shoemaking process -- The pointe shoe fitting process -- Size charts -- Preparing and caring for pointe shoes -- Shoe accessories -- The shoe master -- Profiles of pointe shoemakers and sellers -- Pointe shoe characteristics -- Basic of teaching pointe -- Profiles of pointe training methods -- Sample pointe classes -- Pointe-related injuries and their remedies -- Conversations on pointe. |
Responsibility: | Janice Barringer, Sarah Schlesinger. |
Abstract:
Provides a brief history of pointe dancing; features comprehensive information about the processes of making, fitting, preparing, and caring for pointe shoes, with profiles of shoemakers and sellers, and size charts; examines pointe teaching and training techniques; and looks at pointe-related injuries and their treatments.
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