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Pointe Book Shoes, Training and Technique

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ISBN-10: 087127261X

ISBN-13: 9780871272614

Edition: 2nd 2004

Authors: Janice Barringer, Sarah Schlesinger, David Howard

List price: $21.95
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The only book of its kind, this expanded Second Edition provides a thorough examination of pointe shoes and pointe technique. Dancers and students quickly benefit from the most current research that offers the latest information on hundreds of contemporary designs, materials, products, and suppliers. It illuminates the shoemaking process and gives advice about how to best fit, care for, and custom-order shoes. The basics of pointe readiness, pointe technique, different pointe methods, and the history of dancing on pointe are discussed. Includes an extensive reference to pointe-related injuries, their remedies, and medical and therapy facilities. The authors also provide eight authoritative…    
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Princeton Book Company Publishers
Publication date: 6/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Janice Barringeris a musical consultant for Stepping Tones Records in Los Angeles and has been spotlighted in the PBS Dance in America series. She has been on the faculty of the American Dance Center, Ballet Hispanico, Harkness House, and STEPS and is a columnist forPointe.Sarah Schlesingeris the former owner of the Capezio Dance Theatre Shops in Maryland and Delaware. She has extensive experience in fitting and repairing pointe shoes and is chair at the graduate musical theater writing program at New York University’s Tisch School of Arts. They both live in New York City.

Illustrator Sarah Schlesinger attended Pratt at Munson-Williams-Proctor and Pratt Institute Brooklyn where she majored in drawing and graduated with high honors. A New Jersey native, Schlesinger currently lives in Brooklyn where she has illustrated and designed for independent films, book projects and small local businesses.

Introduction
Preface
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
Basics of Teaching Pointe
Profiles of Pointe Training Methods
Sample Pointe Classes
Pointe-Related Injuries and Their Remedies
Conversations on Pointe
Bibliography
Index