Ballet – The Essential Guide to Technique & Creative Practice

On 25 March 2021, Crowood Publications launch Ballet – The Essential Guide to Technique & Creative Practice, the latest in a highly successful series of practical guides aimed at young practitioners.Edited by Jennifer Jackson, former NYB choreographer, now Artistic Director of Images Ballet Company at London Studio Centre

Compiled by ten leading practitioners, each chapter focuses on an aspect of ballet as a performing art and includes a chapter contributed by NYB trustee, Anna Meadmore, on the historic schools of ballet including those in Paris and St Petersburg. Other contributors include Ginny Brown, CEO of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing and Mark Annear, Karen Berry and Nicola Katrak from The Royal Ballet School.

As well as providing information from dance science research into training well-being, this book supports the individual dancer in their artistic growth, offering strategies for exploration and discovery.

For further information click here. The book will be available to purchase from the 25th March 2021.