Works Consulted
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Videotapes

The Children of Theatre Street: Ballet Documentary. Dir. Robert Dornhelm. Videocasette. Kultur, 1978.

The Nutcracker. Perf. The Kiev Ballet. Videocassette. Video Treasures, 1992.

The Bolshoi in Las Vegas. Videocassette. Bravo, 1997.

The Glory of the Kirov. Perf. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Boris Bregvadze, Nikita Dolgushin, Natalia Dudinskaya, Tamara Karsavina, Irina Kolpakova, Gabriela Komleva, Ninel Kurgapkina, Natalia Makarova, Rudolf Nureyev, Olga Moiseyeva, Alla Osipenko, Vladilen Semenov, Konstantin Sergeyev, Alla Sizova, Galina Ulanova, and Sergei Vikulov. Videocassette. Kultur, 1995.



Books

Barringer, Janice and Sarah Schlesinger. The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training, and Technique. Princeton: Princeton Book Company, 1991.

Kahn, Albert E. Days with Ulanova: An Intimate Portrait of the Legendary Russian Ballerina. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.

Sachs, Curt. Trans. Bessie Schonberg. World History of the Dance. New York: W.W. Norton and Company Inc., 1937.

Slonimsky, Yuri. The Bolshoi Ballet. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1956.

Souritz, Elizabeth. Soviet Choreographers in the 1920s. Trans. Lynn Visson. Ed. Sally Banes. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1990.

Wiley, Roland John. A Century of Russian Ballet: Documents and Accounts, 1810-1910. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.



Websites

Ballet. Mariinsky Theatre. 13 Feb. 2003 http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/ballet.

Fedosova, Elena. The Russian Ballet: A Russian World. St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Music. 13 Feb. 2003 http://www.ardani.com/preface.html.

From Foot to Foot. St. Petersburg Times. 13 Feb. 2003 http://www.webcom.com/shownet.kirov/vaganova.html.

History of Ballet. Dancing Online. 13 Feb. 2003 http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/yiannis/dance/history.html.

Russian Classical Ballet: Great Names of Russian Ballet. 13 Feb 2003http://www.aha.ru/~vladmo/great.html.

Stolyarova, Galina. Legendary St. Pete Dancer Dead at 90. The Moscow Times.com 31 Jan. 2003. 26 Feb. 2003 http://www.tmtmetropolis.ru/metropolis/stories/2003/01/31/109.html.

Tamara Karsavina. 13 Feb. 2003 http://www.aha.ru/~vladmo/karsavina.html.

The Beginnings of Russian Ballet. Andros on Ballet. 13 Feb. 2003 http://androsdance.tripod.com/history/beginnings_of_russian_ballet.htm.

Zibart, Eve. St. Petersburg the Great. The Washington Post.com 7 Feb. 2003. 26 Feb. 2003 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35928-2003Feb6.html.



The History of the Russian Ballet, The Vaganova Academy, The Bolshoi Theater, The Marinsky Theater, Anna Pavlova, Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Natalya Dudinskaya, Vaslav Nijinsky, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Marius Petipa, Michel Fokine, George Balanchine, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The Music of Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky, Image Sources.

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